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Sandra Cheng is also an award-winning filmmaker known for "PedantPhilia", "Hung Moon", "Light Stains", & "America Missung".She has also collaborated on several other animation projects including sound design for Yoom Sirirat Thawilvejakul's Sunday Party, animation title work for Tokyo Broadcasting System's "My Precious Date", whiteboard animation for Entertainment Industry Council (about mental health & media), graphic design for multimedia game "inCHARACTER," and City of Hope's animated leukemia educational video for children.

PedantPhilia (USC) 2003A school girl's crush plays out as a romantic musical, but only in her mind. She is falling madly in love, and in reality, Sandra Cheese has been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder.

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As an artist, Sandra Cheese creates oil paintings, folds origami, sews masks and aprons, crochets and knits hats, sweaters, socks, and gloves, constructed multiple wood projects including a spice rack, a bed frame, folding screens, and does stand up comedy.

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Sandra Cheng is also an award-winning filmmaker known for "PedantPhilia", "Hung Moon", "Light Stains", & "America Missung".She has also collaborated on several other animation projects including sound design for Yoom Sirirat Thawilvejakul's Sunday Party, animation title work for Tokyo Broadcasting System's "My Precious Date", whiteboard animation for Entertainment Industry Council (about mental health & media), graphic design for multimedia game "inCHARACTER," and City of Hope's animated leukemia educational video for children.

PedantPhilia (USC) 2003This film was made at USC in 2003, as a first year graduate animation. A school girl's crush plays out as a romantic musical, but only in her mind. "Pedantphilia" is a retelling of an experience of falling madly in love, and in reality being diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. Heralded at Tennessee International Film Festival as the Best College Student Animation, and honored at "Hi Mom" Film Festival with Top Animation Award in 2004It was drawn with charcoals and erasure inspired by the style of William Kentridge.

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Hung Moon - Vancouver Film School, 2000Sandra Cheng attended the 2d Classical program at Vancouver Film School, and "Hung Moon" was her final film for that year."Hung Moon" is a play on words, "Hung" sounding a little bit like the word for red in Chinese. Two girls connected by the hair go for a ride on a rickshaw late at night, with the rabbit in the moon following them. The gruff older sister is much bigger than the whiny younger sister and pulls her into action by their hair, forcing her to pedal the rickshaw while she rides in the back. They get into an accident with a cat, and their hair flies over the moon, causing both sisters to fall to their early demise.The music is the melody of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played backwards, performed by Sandra Cheese on keyboard in midi.

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As an artist, Sandra Cheese creates oil paintings, folds origami, sews masks and aprons, crochets and knits hats, sweaters, socks, and gloves and may have even yarn bombed something. She has constructed multiple wood projects including a spice rack, a bed frame, folding screens, and various stands. She occasionally finds herself doing stand up comedy with the support of her mentor from Westside Community College, Barry Weisenberg. Like many artists, she dreams of moving to Paris with her boyfriend, who wants to be there even more than her.

Me, thirty-something at USC for grad school

My boyfriend, the magician, in Paris

What Helps

What helps me is being willing to ask for help from others.I used to be uncomfortably shy in school and afraid to ask permission to go to the bathroom. I became a bed wetter, and developed anxiety and UTIs later in life.Communication is key for me. Being able to speak to someone I trust, journaling, and creative expression with performance or art classes has been helpful. The medication is just as important to me as a caring and concerned person in my life. As a woman, as an Asian American, as an artist, and as someone who was very shy at one time, my health depended on learning tools to become more mindful of healthy boundaries.What helps is not blaming myself or anyone else for what is going wrong. It helps to stay positive and keeps me feeling centered. It helps to see me as a person first and not a diagnosis. I can help myself better when I can forgive myself. I am better able to support when others see my strengths and do not constantly try to fix all my problems.Life feels like a giant waiting room. Each of us is capable of growth. It takes a lot of patience to figure out what is going on when something new is happening. I feel that way about pain management. Currently, I'm dealing with a lot of pain after turning fifty.I've done a lot of art projects, looking inward, and sharing with others about who I am. I made a short film called "PedantPhilia" about having heard voices in college, and it won some awards in a few film festivals. Recently I shared about my experiences with it at ISPS-US conference in Sacramento, in addition to another session with another pair of collaborators who helped me put together an AAPI presentation about our recent surge in hate crimes since the pandemic, mental health needs, and social history in America. It helps me to stay active in the community, working with others who are fluent in the language of recovery, and who can honor each other positive affirmations.Other things that help is volunteering to help others when possible, especially with family and friends. I love animals, and a friend of mine recently asked me to take care of her rabbit recently. That was very nice, and I was able to take pictures of the rabbit and chill out there for a bit with the rabbit. I have cats, and I used to have hamsters.

My cat, adopted from my best friend,
Shy like me at first, but always hungry & playful.

Me at thirty-something,
LACMA exhibit with a matching outfit & panda pouch,
coincidentally.

What's Next

I remember the day I graduated from high school. It was the first smile I had in such a long time that I felt like a completely different person. I realized that no matter how sad I was, it was still possible to feel accomplished. Now I have a BFA from Rutgers University, an MFA from the University of Southern California, and I graduated from Vancouver Film School.I'm the NAMI peer advocate from Didi Hirsch that stayed for about ten years. I was one of many failed Asian engineering students in Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1993, and twenty years later in Inglewood, California in 2013, I was the only Asian peer advocate in NAMI Urban LA and Didi Hirsch CMHC.Currently, I am part of Los Angeles County Client Coalition, Inc. and Wildflowers' Movement as well as W is for Web, LLC which is my personal web design company. I am learning the in's and out's of 501c3 filing requirements and business plans. In fact, I'm starting to learn how to write minutes and selling online than I've ever learned before.I've performed stand up comedy in an attempt to "get over" my shyness. I've taken the same class at West Side community center about three times now, and it's helped me feel better about presentations. I have tried to collaborate with a lot of my artist friends by trying to set up their websites for free. Unfortunately, that doesn't usually pan out so well if they really aren't ready to go online. But I'm starting to learn more about SEO very slowly.But I'm most proud of having kept a good relationship with my boyfriend for over 8 years and my therapist for over ten years. Furthermore, I am more responsible because I know more about who I am, and I want to give back. I want to learn French with my boyfriend, and I want to move to Paris. I want to continue to paint and to simply enjoy life.Please don't forget to fill out the evaluation at the end of the session. :)

High school graduation,

Alone with my first real Smile in years,

My sister's friend's parent snapped the photo

Feeling inspired to write your own story? Feel free to use my google form templates and write about your own journey of recovery. You are welcome to copy the form for yourself and use it on your own drive.(40) minute form
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Want to read a sample of my writing from my early 20s? This is my BFA thesis work from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts back in 1998. I was unaware of my current diagnosis at that time, and my eyes in most photographs from those days seem sleepy (like the image seen here) because I was on psychiatric medication.

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Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts 1998

BFA thesis work

This work was submitted for my first college degree at
Rutgers University for completion of
my Bachelor of Arts degree at Mason Gross School of the Arts.
I was a transfer from the Rutgers School of Engineering.
Thank you for reading this.

for my father, the Monkey. _{(My father is a Monkey in the Chinese Zodiac. The photo is of my Mother and me on one of those stickers you can purchase when the photosticker machines were popular.)}

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two become None: A search for Origins
-by Sandra Cheng
_{A rough draft submitted to Professor Molly Blieden}
and
_{Professor Mike Eisnemenger}

^{In partial fulfillment of the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelorette of Fine Arts}

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New Brunswick, New Jersey
March 1998

"Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle,
For Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Had Spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow
As black as a tar barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot the quarrel."
              _{-Lewis Carroll} Through the Looking Glass

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New Brunswick, New Jersey
March 1998

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In rereading my sister's rough draft of "River of Pitch", I was surprised by the number of mathematical allusions she included. In particular, aside from the precise measurements and ages using mostly multiples or fractions of ones and twos, is the choice of the word "ORIGIN".
"At five ⁽¹⁰¹⁾ years old, they were half a mile apart. The other children like to invite them to parties so they could play jumprope with their thick, black hair... If they kept still and squatted low to the ground, they could play Chinese Jumprope. Everyone asked them

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if this was the origin of the name, but they didn't know what Origin meant. At those moments, they happened to be Taiwanese American- Siamese Twins _{now formally called "CONJOINED TWINS"} connected by the hair playing jumprope, but one thing really had nothing to do with another."
_{Picture of a coordinate system}

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My younger sister Wendy, who graduated from Cornell in 1996 with a Bachelors in Liberal Arts is not known in my family as a math nor science-friendly writer. But she has always had a poetic mind and a deep understanding of words and their connotations.
The origin of the phrase "Siamese Twins" (meaning conjoined twins) is from the documented pair of twins from Thailand (?) attached by the waist. It is said that when one (Chang) drank alcohol, the other (Eng) felt its effects, and when Chang died in his sleep, Eng woke up and died of fright.

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101
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                                   UNDER CONSTRUCTION110
represents the solution to most of my family's arguments especially in my childhood. With the number of times111
removal from the norm1000
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What is hard to distinguish is1010
Pagan Kennedy's desc1011 village (idiot) friend