(Y)Alex Yang
My immigrant parents weren't very original when it came to giving their son an English name. As such, I've adopted the nickname of Y'Alex in spaces with a multitude of Alex's, derived from concatenating the first initial of my Chinese name Yujie (宇杰) with my middle name.
Currently a third year undergraduate at Northwestern University, I am a lighting designer who seeks to find the rules and patterns (or lack thereof) in the imagined world and grounds it in the context and composition of the physical world. Lighting is a vessel through which a story is told, enhanced, and transformed. Thus, it should confine itself to the functions that the story necessitates, an abstract form that is constantly in dialog with the art that is collaboratively being created. Each moment should be intentional and evocative.
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