CURRENTLY BASED IN HONG KONG

My dream with this space was to invite the ether into the real world, in the form of safely held and loving creative space unlike anything I’d seen before in the photographic world — nonjudgemental, genuinely inclusive, and patient, aligned, alchemizing, healing. After 3 years of intensive care, this idea has been born into the website you see before you!

The Short Version

My intention for this space is to share my story, background, and pillars of value for infinite impression, legacy. I’m a daughter, younger sister, and mother to two furry creatures; born and raised in Northern California, I found my calling early in life through the Arts, though it was never an “easy” ride…

Experience:

• currently serving the San Francisco Bay Area (California)

• 5+ years photography experience

• 2+ years tarot reading experience

• anticipating movement to Asia in November 2022, where I will be living in Hong Kong and eventually studying trauma-informed yoga in a 200-Hour YTT

Intersectional identities

With Chinese and Vietnamese heritage, I was born and raised in America and bridged the cultural gaps growing up, finding my own voice, unique expression, center, and holistic wellbeing through it all. During 2020 through 2022, I found myself as a Chinese and Vietnamese American exploring my queerness, entrepreneurial passions and creative pursuits, and standing up for myself, giving voice and standing in resistance after experiences of my own to the thought leadership movements that were displacing and eradicating non-white voices. In these last few years, my healing has expanded to include intentions of holding inclusive space for non-white and neurodivergent folks. I deeply value holistic wellness and health, self-expression for empowerment and a shift from the victim mentality, and healing through various modalities for the greatest good of communal health above all — and it’s my intention that this is reflected in all of the work that I do and space that I facilitate, hold, and share, with softness, empathy, compassion, and passion.

Dreams: Our dreams and desires? We have them for a reason. Apart of my intended work with you is to discover what that inner voice is whispering to you: visually, creatively, or subconsciously. Together, I hope to uncover and hold sacred those eggs, gems, and seeds of wisdom, confidence, and deep knowing — to return to a space of wholeness and ease in our process together.

In systemized education, I have a background in Nutrition and Dietetics and a B.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach in all of its diversity is my second home. I fell in love with diversified culture, and thus, followed my interests of interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, and intercultural communication! I specialized in Mediation, which is the practice of holding and facilitating space for conflict resolution and agreement-making, and coached individuals in public speaking — which is very much a confidence-building space! All of these interests allowed me to deepen my heartfelt service to humanity, interpersonal connection, and revealing the inner and true self through carefully crafted, lovingly held, and exuberantly expressed self-expression: what I see as the sharing of your message and self as a divine art form.

How did I get into photography? It began as a hobby and creative outlet for me — and my dream is to make it my full-time career. At 18, I first shot street style photography on an iPhone for my best friend in college (it wasn’t even the latest version; we had no real equipment and were doing so for fun, for her blog as a Fashion & Merchandising student). When traction began picking up and our own creative centers sparked and flourished, her and I were having so much fun creating, that this became an emotional release and perspective-enlightener for me — before it ultimately became a creative outlet that birthed itself after my first real breakup at 19, something that inspired me to be in front, rather than behind, the camera. I learned discomfort and comfort, poses, angles, situations, settings, and vibes.

The medium was like a practice of joy: that offered personal empowerment, deep replenishment, and the space to be seen in how you always envision yourself or feel you are within — I got to feel that firsthand, after switching from being photographer to being photographed and modeling for my best friend for fun. After this joy sparked and picked up, I got to be apart of projects that were massive for me at the time, like Kota the Friend’s “Like Water” music video, and continued doing this for fun in addition to my studies in college.

Getting paid. At 20 and 21, I went from casually dressing my friends for shoots and spending all day out in whatever locations we wanted, meeting so many new people and musicians, and sharing creative space, I began to see the seeds of something pretty massive and beautiful forming — and I wanted to shine the spotlight on genuine youth, authenticity, and meaning of soul. From flowing creatively with models, I went to shooting unconventional grad photos for my dear friends and practised holding space in all of these scenarios, opening up dialogue, vision, and connection. It was always my deepest honor to witness and give life to the central essence and energy of others.

In this final sense of devotion, I truly catered to my dreams this year, after already steering away from corporations and with jobs not going through when I applied (like to baristas, part-time gigs, nothing just felt right!) and I decided to pursue and engage in this full time: offering the dream package I’ve always wished would be available for someone like me, an always budding and lifelong artist and creative, with body sensitivities and an even bigger heart. I personally share senses of body dysmorphia, and have worked through eons of being through my part in the mill as a body with intersectional identities: moving through youth with being exoticized while living with an eating disorder that catered to a growing survival instinct. This rawness is not unwelcome in our space together: in fact, I welcome it, having been so familiar with these energies, and with the understanding that safe space is co~created and communicative. And above all else, the most important thing when creating with sensual energies if we want the end goals to be balanced ✨

With that and in conclusion to the short version, I am so personally excited to hold space for you, work with you, and co~create masterpieces that will transcend time from its beginning, middle, and fulfillment of idea to creation. Please never feel shy to communicate in our time together: it’s my personal mission to bring self-love back into your visual practices and experience of yourself, in every single way.