I painted extractions from selected iconic Japanese anime characters (popular during 1980-90s') onto manipulated reproductions of portraits of myself from 1980-2007 in blurred and pixelated conditions. Portraits have always been perceived as the physical description of personal identity, and anime characters have grown larger influence on shaping the gender norms and meanwhile might also having the potentials of breaking them.

Those anime characters have had an influence on how I perceive gender roles at my early age according to personal memories, but the memories are also widely shared by people from my generation in Asia and the generations after decades in different regions in the world. The ever expanding anime culture has contributed to the Asian modernity and globalization after World War II, as well as the development of the generation of people including myself who are largely engaged with the virtuality.