Modern society’s championing of reason, growth, and consumption, has led to a rapidly changing world where we too easily lose and instead rely on standards classified by others.

 

The first step to finding our own identity begins with removing the external identity arbitrarily assigned at birth. This project, which is primarily inspired by Mu-ism(Korean shamanism), seeks to use fashion to regain our own identity.

 

Anti-dentity is a digital game which arbitrarily assigns characters, classified by typical criteria, using restrictions drawn from the real world. Through the stages of the game, the player can get rid of these restrictions which is represented with the size of their character’s hat getting larger. As the size of the hat increases, the character's appearance increasingly hidden. This acts as a metaphor for a person’s elevation into a more identity-fluid sense of self.