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ARTIST STATEMENT My work is a carefully modulated interweaving of two voices, the personal and the public. The private strain is lyrical in mood and spiritual in content. As a Korean é­©gré ´o the United States, the story of immigrants in American culture is of special importance to me, and my work. Most of my work contains written characters, often drawn from the Korean and Chinese alphabets. The use of my native Korean alphabet and the Chinese calligraphy I learned as a child, place particular emphasis on the beauty and strength of writing. My works express an evolution; through years of development, assimilating the American experience with my Korean upbringing. As a result of this process I am able to use calligraphy and inspirations from nature, to create universal messages that can be communicated to both "hyphenated"- Americans and "non-hyphenated-Americans", different and alike. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Use your mouse to select any of the numbers, and the image will appear in the window on the left hand side of the screen. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12