In my current works, I am exploring “home” and “homeland”. As a mixed race child of Vietnamese immigrant mother and an Irish-American father, who was a career diplomat, my sense of home has always been fluid and ever changing. I was conceived in Vietnam and born in the U.S. In a sense, I was exiled before I was born and lived most of my life as an ex-patriot. For me, my art practice is about exploring these seemingly disjointed identities that co-exist in my body and this ever-present search for home. The “home” I speak of is one that represents home in more than the emotional and physical sense of home. I am interested in the way race; ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and spirituality shape how I view this elusive home. Through my work, I investigate issues such as war and memory, transnational identity and belonging, and multiple identities and its attendant baggage.