Born in Korea and raised in Massachusetts, my family and I lived a difficult life dealing with immigrant status and poverty. Although being drawn to music and art growing up, I went to engineering school to make money and support myself and my family for the future. A bipolar onset threw that out the window, and I ended up dropping out. It was in that time that I made it my goal to devote myself to art for the rest of my life. My practice navigates humanity’s relationship with nature and itself through the scope of my experiences as an immigrant, and augmented by the extremes of living with bipolar disorder. I create printed tapestries (primarily cyanotype) as a way to connect to my heritage through the tradition of Korean quiltmaking. Funnily enough, while my mom worked as a tailor at my family’s dry cleaners, I never bothered to learn how to sew properly from her. In a way I feel like I’m making up for that by making these quilted tapestries.