Shuen (traditional Chinese watercolor) paper; homemade rice glue; Common and butterfly milkweed, and blue mistflower seeds; Chinese watercolor paints, graphite, ink. These carefully selected native-Maryland seeds are butterfly attractors and sustainers that benefit monarch and other butterfly species, and henceforth their/our ecosystem.

Two young women/girls of mixed Korean descent are wishing for the future, theirs and for all life on Earth. A leaf dangles from a tree, representing the temporary nature of all things and the numerous permutations of continuation and integration of the tree’s energy into different phases of cycles in nature and the universe. 1,100 seeds that are native to Maryland are pasted with homemade rice glue in between sheets of Shuen paper and painted using Chinese watercolor. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the art by removing a small piece, taking it home, make a wish, rip it up, and let it “be lost with the wind”, as written by Yoko Ono’s Piece for the Wind in her book, Grapefruit). This piece is safe for the environment, demonstrates the temporary nature of everything in our universe, and illustrates the well-wishes for harmonizing with ourselves, each other, our community, nature and world. Inspired by my two daughters, artist Yoko Ono, and Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.