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Coming Out of the Fog (2018)

For this series, I intimately looked at myself and this brand new way of documenting my life as a Korean-American, while acknowledging that I know close to nothing about my Korean heritage.

For this series, I intimately looked at myself and this brand new way of documenting my life as a Korean-American, while acknowledging that I know close to nothing about my Korean heritage. I shot my imagery in an imaginative world that peeks into my first life as Korean. Rediscovery and ‘coming out of the fog’: reclaiming a portion of my identity that tells a different sequence of my preconceived life, I was able to find pieces that were fitting into what an adoptee is. Further research about myself led me to seek inspiration from a set of old transparent slides, which my Grandfather took during the Korean War in the early 1950’s. A visit to Koreatown in Los Angeles, and local Korean language culture classes, have provided additional insights on South Korea and its people. I took these photographs to begin to answer some of the mysteries ingrained sby my dual cultural identity, and to bridge the gap between where I came from and where I am now.

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