![]() While I was able to adopt many habits of the countries I lived in, be accepted and connect with people, I still felt foreign and somewhat alien. Over the years, the biggest struggle I faced was my identity. Growing up, everybody faces challenges to make sense of the world we live in, but having so many conflicting cultures and experiences did not make it any easier. Navigating friendships and relationships had yet another level of complexity. Simple things like how to address a teacher in school, which topics are taboo, how to stop a bus, eating habits, punctuality expectations - were all so different. These countries and their cultures often represented huge contrasts in ethics, societal expectations, acceptable norms, common sense and many other aspects of life. When I was 12 years old, I spoke Spanish, French, German and English, and at 23 I did my best to learn some Irish sign language. From a very young age, we moved around, growing up in Switzerland, France, Germany and today I live in Ireland. I was born in Panama where I lived for about 9 years altogether. How does the collection connect with my story? Every single person is part of the same community, namely humankind. “MicroCosm” conveys the idea that we are a representation of a larger group. Together in the collection, "flavour" is used as an analogy to express how people are like delicious recipes with distinct and unique flavour combinations. ![]() Flavour: “the distinctive taste of a food or drink” or "an indication of the essential character of something.".MicroCosm: “a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of something much larger”.The collection showcases how complex an identity can be, particularly but not exclusively for people with a mixed background and strives to blur the lines of geographical nationality which often forces an identity upon people. Aim: Create a sense of belonging by celebrating diversity, uniqueness and authenticity through art. MicroCosm Flavours is a limited collection of art pieces and goods found exclusively at Tania Rosas Designs.
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