It’s universally human to wonder where we come from, how we came to be, and how we own the different chapters of our identities. In short bursts over the last decade, I have been trying to understand why my relationship with my parents was so tumultuous. I learned that one of the antidotes to breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma was to reconnect to cultural roots. Simpler than it sounds, it makes sense - know who you are, have space to be who you are, and you won’t need to hurt others. I photographed and interviewed my parents, spending more time in my childhood home over 10 weeks than I had in the last 10 years.

This became “What we inherit,” a multimedia piece that began as an inquiry into my grandparents' immigration story from China and ended up being a study of wounding and healing from intergenerational trauma.