TITLE: The face of another

As complex creatures, humans have the ability to adapt our facial expressions to fit the situation at hand. Whether we're interacting with strangers, friends, or elders, we can quickly switch between various emotional states to convey the appropriate message. It's almost as effortless as changing masks - we can easily slip into the desired emotional state and return to a neutral expression just as quickly. However, this tendency to put on a facade can lead us to lose touch with our true selves, as we become accustomed to masking our genuine emotions with fake expressions. In the end, we may forget what our authentic selves truly look like.

AUTHOR: Shou-En Chiang (Taiwan)

He is a 24 years old Asian male living in the United States and trying to survive every god damnit day of his life. He calls himself Francis, but his real name is Shou-En Chiang a.k.a 江守恩. He is a film and digital photographer, cinematographer, video editor, performing artist, and former theater performer. In 2016, he graduated with a theater major in arts high school. He mastered the basics of photography from an arts high school with a major in theater and an interest in becoming a street photographer. He enjoyed photographing and observing people's actions and movements, which has become the subject of much of his creative work. The existentialism of theater and surrealism inspired him to create each piece of art. He had been jumping between business and art during that time and didn’t expect to go to the United States by himself the following year. He had to adapt to a major issue in his life, loneliness, which became a topic he would discuss in his art. He uses video, photo, and performing art as a medium and has created many artworks that revolve around the many themes of life, with existentialism, and surrealist comedy. It's like what most people say: Life is art, and you are one of them.