Angela Hong
Bachelor of Design / Bachelor of Art Education
All the World's a Stage
It was William Shakespeare who said that “All the world’s a stage," and upon this stage we play the role of the friend, the enemy, the sister, the brother, the mother, the father, the antagonist, the protagonist and so on. We adopt the persona of different roles in different situations with different people that in many ways we are never truly ourselves nor can we ever know who our true selves really are. We cocoon ourselves armour so that we may protect our true selves. The armour is a beautification of the expectations of how one should act in particular scenes and we wear it so the play can go on. But the facade is fragile, bound in the form of paper upon which our lines are written. It is a vulnerable skin but strong in its resolve to let the play go on... Paper and fabric