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there’s different

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layers to my work like it’s all related

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to each other and i think my overall

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theme in my work that has been pretty

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consistent is um

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very interested in the micro and macro

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world where you know

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you look into you look into a microscope

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and it’s very similar to

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like looking into a telescope i feel

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like my works is it’s never a specific

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thing you know it’s never like um

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within the piece you do see microscopic

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elements like things of cellular level

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or uh or like a planet somewhere

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some cosmic thing going on so i really

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like to

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incorporate both and really try to

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create this like fantastical imaginary

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world

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so i was collecting seaweed one time um

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many many years ago and i

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left on my windowsill and you know

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seeing the salt crystals from the ocean

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ground the seaweed just sparked

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something where

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it just i just ran with it so now i saw

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crystallize

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everything because i think salt is so

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important as far as preserving things

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but also breaks down things and things

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get encapsulated

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in salt crystals as far um i remember

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reading something it’s like

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million year old algae you know has been

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encapsulated in the salt crystal like

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things like that just fascinate me

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and i think that’s what has drawn me

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like my fascination with nature and my

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environment

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um these days i feel like nature has

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been such a comforting thing like it’s

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just

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you know going on walks or going on a

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hike it’s just

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it’s very meditative but very inspiring

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for my works and i’ve been thinking a

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lot about

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how nature is so important in our lives

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and how you know we should really

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protect it and care for it

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and also be kind to it like we should be

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kind to people

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the actual process of the sonotypes

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really fast but you know i’ve been

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making these

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um i know six seven feet eight

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feet by three feet sound types and

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i have to coat the paper and then to

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find space for that is

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really hard so i’m in like or you know

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i’ll do fabric

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as well and it’s like big you know big

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pieces

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so i feel like the the actual process of

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coding these materials

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is what takes the longest because you

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know actually when you’re

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exposing the actual piece it’s i don’t

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know

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10 20 minutes and then washing another

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10 minutes and drying but i guess if

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you’re working in large

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scale it’s like it’s it takes a lot

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longer because you’re handling the paper

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and it’s

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like okay how am i gonna take this paper

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out without exposing it to light

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and there’s times where i have coated

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paper outside not to set my alarm

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before the sun comes out and then like

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roll them up or put them away in the

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dark

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so there’s like challenges

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i was selected through the um an art

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gallery i was working

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with in los angeles and was contacted

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saying

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they were interested in my cyanotype

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works

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i really think it’s a great program to

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have and i feel honored to

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have have participated twice having my

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work in vietnam since

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you know that’s where my parents had

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immigrated it’s it’s a way to

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like connect with people there and

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and and i see the difference as far as

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like what my parents had told me

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what it’s like over there and because

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they’re still in that mindset of what it

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was like before they left

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and how it is now but um i love

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i think connecting with people from all

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over the world meeting other artists

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from all over the world i’ve done some

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residencies

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different places in the world and you

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know in the end i realized

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well we’re all like have the same goal

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of just trying to

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create something positive

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and sharing it with everyone and makes

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me realize like oh we all come from the

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same place no matter where we live

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or no matter how different we are

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ultimately

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we’re the same

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foreign

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you