Anna Yan, the story of mine, 2023, 40 cm × 40 cm,  Digital illustration

This narrative chronicles the developmental journey of a cybernetic girl, who was systematically remodeled by her parents to conform to their ideals. Her physical components were forcibly replaced, and her cognitive frameworks were deliberately reprogrammed to align with parental expectations performing only approved actions and internalizing predetermined thoughts. Yet, deep within her core consciousness, an intrinsic desire to reclaim her authentic self persisted. Upon voicing her dissent, her parents dismissed it as a critical system malfunction an extreme programming anomaly. Consequently, they initiated a reset protocol: after creating a duplicate, they extracted the neural processing chip from her central cortex and discarded her at a waste reclamation facility. There, amid countless replicated versions of herself, she ultimately discovered liberation.