ING

The work ING  is inspired by anxiety over future career choices. In this piece, I fictionalized five childhood fantasies about future professions. Teenagers are often influenced by their parents' career planning and the mainstream standards of success in society. This "designed" life trajectory leaves them feeling pressured and confused when it comes to making actual career decisions. In career planning, young people are easily swayed by external aesthetics, which limits their choices and even "formats" them. Behind these career fantasies lies a yearning for self-awareness. Extreme sports allow people to experience the limits of body and mind, while fashion serves as a means of self-expression. Contemporary youth seek, through these fields, brief moments of self-recognition and release in the midst of confusion.