I'm here

Since I began my project ' The Yellow is Following Me'  in 2019, I have used a yellow dot as my profile picture on social media.

 

Over time, people started to recognize the yellow dot as something that belongs to me, as part of who I am.

I began to wonder what it would mean to bring this yellow dot into real life. I started placing yellow stickers in locations I have visited and on objects I feel connected to.

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A friend who studied drawing therapy once told me that when children draw circles for the first time, it marks the moment they become aware of their own sense of self.

The circle is also a universal symbol. It has no beginning and no end. It represents the infinite, eternity, timelessness, and cyclical movement, ideas that resonate with my research into our sun, the color yellow, light, and stellar nucleosynthesis.

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Everything placed on the internet can never truly be erased. But how long will it take before other people remove my yellow dots?

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Each photograph carries its own title: the exact coordinates of the place where I placed the sticker and took the image. 

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'I am here' plays with identity and presence, with leaving traces in the digital age, and with the question of what it means for the “I” to exist