Each year we ask incoming MFAD students to discuss their favorite work. Today we meet:

Rui Huang, Shanghai, China

“This series of work represents the traditional Japanese recreational activities that have been around for a couple of centuries,” says Rui Huang, who moved to Japan when she was five and to the United States at fourteen. “It is an introspection of part of my childhood experience growing up in Japan. It stems from my experience with the culture, but they also relate to certain demographics and it is nostalgic for certain people and influential for others. I intended to give this series a retro, or even a 70’s style in order to provide that nostalgia from childhood. I incorporated typography and imagery so that they resemble advertisements.”