While our splintered society claims to appreciate difference, it also discourages the actualization of minorities. By revealing our unique interiorities, I believe that beginning a conversation can fight the phenomenon of othering, and celebrate each other's differences.In my work, I embrace vulnerability and communicate the experience of self to address the fragmenting nature of race, gender, and cultural norms. I, a Korean-American woman, represent an underrecognized margin of people--and a misunderstood strata of women. I live a mixed identity, who presents as ethnically Asian, and who is wholly indecipherable to many. As such, I use my intersectional existence to comment on certain realities: that the Asian figure (specifically, the female Asian figure) is not regarded as other neoclassical forms are;
