- Melodie Shi
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I am a London-based multidisciplinary creative working across cultural research, writing and visual practice. Trained in anthropology, my work explores how contemporary life is shaped through media, labour, mobility and everyday meaning-making.
I hold degrees in Material and Visual Culture from UCL and Critical Practice for Fashion Media from UAL. My approach is research-led, drawing on qualitative methods and critical theory to translate complex ideas into thoughtful narratives. This site presents selected visual work from undergraduate study and early projects.
From a found family photograph to the imprinted silhouette of ropes on the cement floor;
Through experiments on instinctual visualisation, the surface notions could all be attributed to the known familiarities stored in memories.
The zine was a product of my practice-based research on chance through recalled semantic memories categorised as visual auto-ethnography. It includes snapshots of my habitual, unintended exercise to capture 2D visuals across 2019–2021.