As part of the MetroHAWAI'I Visual Investigations class, students from the Palama Settlement In-Community Youth Treatment Program photographed Chinatown during a field trip and created a common pool of images from which to draw. Because the sample-based practice of hip-hop is one of the dominant frameworks for youth culture, it is only natural that the results of the MetroHAWAIêI youth education component be expressed in terms of collage and fragments. Working individually and in collaborative teams, they took fragments of this visual micro-culture and used an image processing tool called Fireworks to create their composites. Working with multiple disparate elements and in multiple layers allowed them to express ideas of change, insider-outsider status, conflict, and difference. Though the viewer will see certain visual expressions repeated and in some ways unified by shared social conditions, the context that they are used in are all radically different and highly personal.