Modes of Seeing, Means of Telling is a thesis book that proposes graphic design as a tool for investigations. It documents my three years of work at RISD's Graphic Design MFA program, advised by Kathy Wu, James Goggin, and Alicia Cheng. The abstract is as follows:

In a world increasingly threatened with dis- and misinformation, far-right nationalisms, geopolitical violence and conflicts, I am interested in graphic design as a tool for investigation and interactive storytelling.

To investigate is to track a movement, to untangle a situation, to search for the roots of an incident. In adopting the posture of the researcher, the journalist, or the pedestrian observer, I engage in the work of collecting vantage points: data, records, images, from academic papers to personal anecdotes. I position them in larger sociopolitical contexts, making visible how they might all fit together. Who holds the power of narration? Who is pushed to reside in the margins? Zoom in, zoom out; I reconfigure the fragments to tell a new story.

The world around us is one in constant expansion. This thesis is a reminder to be in the perpetual motion of searching rather than knowing; this way, I can start to see the cracks and gaps within. I hold my gaze —

You can download the full PDF here.