Daniela is me, too

Abstract

This terminal project explores the emotional and visual complexity of transracial adoption through photography, installation, and narrative. Drawing from personal experiences as a Colombian adoptee raised in a white Midwestern family, the work navigates themes of identity, memory, and cultural disconnection. Using analog and digital techniques, such as projection, family photos, and material layering, the project visually reflects the fragmented nature of selfhood formed between two names, two homes, and two histories. Inspired by artists like LaToya Ruby Frazier, Joel Sternfeld, and Tarrah Krajnak, the project becomes a visual language for articulating what words cannot always express: the unresolved, evolving journey of belonging.