Though the Christian church my Korean mother grew up in discouraged the exploration of other religions, she found meaning as a young woman in the intersections between Christianity and Buddhism, Hinduism, and Shamanism. She studied to be a Christian missionary, but ultimately became a therapist and a teacher of Pungmul, a Korean shamanistic ritual music and Salpuri, a healing dance. I grew up watching her dance, understanding instinctively that the bodily practice of ritual might heal the failures of language and logic. "My art draws upon diverse spiritual texts and practices and seeks to heal the rifts between eastern and western religion through bodily transcendence." In my videos, I perform ritualistic meditation ceremonies. My head is shaved and I meditate with my back to the camera, embodying the detachment from gender, culture, time, thought, and ego inherent in meditation. The immersive quality of film in ...