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STATEMENT OF WORK
Everything I've Ever Loved considers Orange County, California's history of landholdings, subdivisions, conservatism, and underrepresented narratives through the lens of a mixed-race Chicana and a transracial adoptee. Situated in the double lens of otherness inherent to adoption and multiracial experiences, Everything I’ve Ever Loved responds to the relationship between home, place, and belonging as a multimedia autoethnography. The project examines how location and belonging shape racial imaginaries, encoded through a veiled understanding of self, distinct to transracial adoption, and informed by place-based racism. Everything I’ve Ever Loved utilizes research and archival materials, including photographic negatives from the 20th century, combined with the iconography of the Valencia orange, a symbol for the County's name and an icon of migrant labor in its farmlands, contrasted by image-making from regional locations, parklands, coastlines, and neighborhoods that comment on the preservation of 'natural' land within the southernmost part of the County; these areas of focus are comprised of print and lens-based media and moving images to create soft, often obfuscated points of view, dislocating subjects and highlighting details of plant life and textures from Orange County's landscape.