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As an immigrant mother and artist from South Korea, my work reflects the dualities of migration …

Transformation and chaos are deeply interconnected concepts …

For most of us despair comes and goes.

The brooch “Shining Despair” reflects the contrast between life’s darkness and the light that endures within it.

The motif of this work is my feelings when I picked up my grandmother’s bones.

Despair is the lack of little breathless reflections.

The series ‘Pressed Flowers’ is inspired by my memories of my grandfather’s garden from my childhood.

We experience the world in the only way we can, through and with our bodies.

As a child, I would watch my mother patch up worn garments …

When the relentless madness of this world is clouding my heart, I take a walk in the woods …