Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans I wanted to
express the idea of what it means to be “Americanized”Pho in many ways has become Americanzied through its propagation around the United States with its popularity. And I’m critiquing what that looks like. As for myself, I too have become Americanized through adoption and the consumption of American culture.
Fork & Chopsticks:
Symbolizing choosing my own identity
between being Vietnamese and
American side.
Appropriation
Has pho become appropriated in American culture? One could say it has through various people taking pho and calling it “authentic”. The question I raise is whether food appropriation is even a thing?
Am I what I eat?
Taking 7,000 google food photos scraped from google reviews of pho restrauaunts throughout the United States and putting them into a mosiac. Embedding myself
into soup.