creation of ownership/ownership of creation

a blurb from something recent:

"Dance has always been part of this journey of social and cultural self-discovery and self-identification. Having grown up in Taiwan in the midst of the political status-quo that currently exists, I feel that it is only natural that I am always questioning, "What does it mean to be Taiwanese?”, “What is my identity as a Taiwanese person?”, and more recently, “What is my identity as a Taiwanese-American?”

My family and I have always identified on the end of the political spectrum where Taiwanese sovereignty is favored. Definitions of Taiwanese (politically/culturally/socially) have always been blurred, existing within a grey area. When I am asked, its always easier for people to understand what I’m not, rather than what I am.

Although I may not necessarily answer these questions of nationality, and cultural identification through dance, this eternal search for self has in turn fueled the strong sense of belonging and ownership of the definitive qualities that I have been able to create, and still am creating, for myself. Through my dance, I am making active choices and decisions about my effort, and my aesthetic; how I want to move, my creative process… all coupled by an overall encompassing awareness of all these factors, which in turn produces self-applicable ideas and concepts that I can firmly believe in and call my own.”