I’m Mina, born and bred in New York City. I have grown up in an environment which has both challenged and developed me as an artist. I constantly attempt to see the world through new perspectives, illustrating the complexity and variance of human life through my art. I attend La Guardia High School.
“Let me just say one last word
About this word ‘transformation’.
It leaves an impression
That you start in an untransformed state,
And then you transform
And become a transformed state.
Life isn’t like that.
Life is dynamic,
It’s changing,
And really it’s transforming.”
– Pentagon Town Hall meeting, March 6, 2003
Everyday we construct ourselves in the morning in order to face the world, and at night we deconstruct in our own habitats of comfort at home. Whether we consciously know it or not, all aspects of our presentations of self are composed so that we will be perceived in a certain way. But sometimes the way in which we want to be perceived comes with rigid guidelines, which has a large impact on the formation of one’s identity. However, I believe that there is no permanent state of self, and through these photographs I attempt to articulate the fluidity of self and gender expression.
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