How does your work transcend borders and create new ideals of what it means to be American/immigrant/mixed heritage” (whichever way you self identify)?

I create my own personal landscapes to create a home that is my own within me and to transcend the physical borders of land and country. We immigrants and descendants of immigrants are always the “other” existing between two worlds divided by national borders. Through this project, I am attempting to eradicate these borders for myself and hopefully inspire the viewer that is dealing with similar issues to find their personal resolution.  In telling my own personal story as someone who was at one point an illegal immigrant, I am attempting to humanize the “alien” to the audience that isn’t dealing with this issue.