About

I was born in Seoul, Korea and lived in NYC most of my life. Many of my people come from a beautiful countryside region of Korea called An-Dong.  My lineage people were healers, scholars, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and farmers.  I consider myself a Healing Artist in love with creating, with my hands and heart.  Besides my art and my adornments, I also am a Chinese Medicine practitioner in the 5 Element system. I graduated from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, with a MA in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs in 2014.  Before then, I was deeply healed and impacted by living in Vermont while studying the body and embodiment, movement, dance and somatics in the form of Contact Improvisational dance, completing 500hrs of study in the Embodyoga system. I have  been blessed to study with pioneers like Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Anna Halprin, Angela Farmer and so many others. I am a lover of Nature and am a constant student of this life. 

I graduated from an amazing art institution, The Cooper Union School of Fine Arts with a BFA in 1998. But, really, I have always been an artist, obsessed with paper, drawing, and lines. I never pursued being a gallery-exhibiting artist, but my postpartum journey has shown me the power of my art: as a portal for the full expression and healing of my soul.  I feel that becoming a mother has shown me the true value and power of creating artwork. Many of my works reflect, for me, the deep power of the Feminine and my ancestral lineage comes through so strongly.  The recent larger pieces are approximately door-sized, representing the body and also a portal. Each piece has been a pathway for me to step  deeper into more self-knowledge and celebration of the pain & beauty of being alive (and some of the pieces saw over several years time, new life and deaths occur, including the passing of my beloved father).  My art is truly my soul expression. 

My adornments are a reflection of the Beauty Way. I've been making jewelry intuitively since I was tiny, picking wildflowers and linking them together, so excited to be wearing dandelion flowers on my wrist.  Fast forward to my mid-20s in NYC, street vending off a tiny table on the corner of Spring St and W. Broadway in Soho, selling all the jewelry I had made off my table.  Then forming my own jewelry design company, Nabi Design, which became a thing, for years.  My jewelry sold nationally and internationally, and was featured in many magazines such as In Style and Spanish Vogue, and I had a little fan club of celebrities!  I dissolved the company, but my love for creating playful, sensual, delightful sculptural forms to adorn the wearer continues.  I use stones, glass, materials I've collected over the years. I handcraft each piece and infuse them with beauty, love and intention, sending these exact blessings to the wearer!