“ During the pandemic, I tend to look back to the past and hold onto the experiences that will shape myself and the future. This process of haunting memories helps me to be more appreciative of the present and gives me the courage to carry forward into the future. By looking at the past, trips to Asia, Canada, Cuba, and Key West are my inspirations in creating moments that form who I am. These memories allow me to create an inner fantasy world through drawing on tracing paper, painting on canvas, and doing traditional Chinese painting on rice paper. Freely expression of ink on rice paper along with Chinese poetry creates a spiritual place that allows me to pursue inner peace. By representing an imaginary world and combining eastern and western scenes I express my yearning to belong two both identities and not in between!”