 So, my work took a turn in 2010, before that I was doing silkscreen posters and my silkscreens either pointed out injustices or celebrated community events, but in 2010 I started to do three-dimensional sculpture and I settled in 2012 on a form that I have pursued to this day and that's the form of the mandala. So, mandala means circle and it has become a great medium for me to galvanize community, focus around a central issue or just having different little pieces that make up a whole universe and so I found that this was a great way to tell stories, affirm identity, or educate about history, celebrate cultural traditions and also preserve memory and because it's a circle and because it's made of many little pieces, I can include a lot of things and also include the community in actually making these pieces so that we all have a collective input into this piece and through it find some healing for ourselves. So, this is called the soul of San Francisco, it's 12 feet round and they're floor mandalas and they're made of very tiny little pieces and so for this one I wanted to show what I feel is the heart of San Francisco before it all disappears because San Francisco as you know is changing rapidly and so in it are photographs of neighborhoods and storefronts that have either changed or are still there but may change and also the diversity that I feel is rapidly disappearing so that was one way to preserve memory and also to add some delight you know what was delightful about San Francisco, ramen noodles and sponge cakes are in there and as well as a lot of other things and I engaged people in the senior centers to help me with these pieces and also some young children from school and that's a trademark that I also do. This one I did for Oakland Museum for their Day of the Dead and it's literally about preserving and memorizing loss and but I have about 90 people in this mandala, people I know, people I don't know, I asked the community to send me names and sometimes photos because I wanted everyone to see that death happens to everybody and through that realization we're in some way comforted because we share this common grief over this inevitable fate that we will all have so there are of course pictures but there are also items there that show how other cultures commemorate and honor their death from obon dancers to Balinese baskets to butterflies and skulls and stuff like that and I also have a playful element here too where the skeletons come back to earth and haunt the places that they used to go to and that's a detail of that. So this one is the one I'm not keeping track of time but this one I wanted to focus more on this is called Japan Town Mandala and it's part of a larger adduction called Sweet J Town and it was commissioned by First Voice which is Vendewang Aoki and Marquisu and it's a multidisciplinary event where we took over a storefront in Japan Town and I have the Mandala, there's an interactive pagoda that accompanies it, their multidisciplinary music, dance and a panel discussion and a lot of community activity so here you can see some of the items in it we use everything from a lot of resources from the neighborhood we had Neomachi Little Friends, these little preschoolers they made the gingerbread people and we have photos that pointed out the hundred year history of the Japanese in America including the internment camp it's all in there in the inner rows and then we made fun stuff like sushi and little items that are pertaining to the culture because Japan Town is in danger of being lost due to gentrification and redevelopment and there are only three Japan Towns left in America so it's very important to point out the significance of this particular neighborhood and this particular culture and most importantly the history so that we don't repeat it. Seniors helped me with the outer rows, two senior centers there, everything in the neighborhood including the mall where our storefront was held, everything is in there it was a big gallery so we had you can see the Mandala but there was also room to do a panel discussion on the relationship with Western Edition because it was not a separate community before Gary Boulevard divided the neighborhoods and we had young people doing hip hop and you know it was important to engage the young people so they could carry on this telling of history and in fact the project commissioned eight interns called J-Tels and they were commissioned to learn about Japanese history and they will be the ones to tell it in the future so this is just to give you a glimpse of the breadth of this particular project and how I feel like it really captures what we're talking about here how to pass on the memory how to memorialize it and how to galvanize a community so that they can save a neighborhood or at least preserve its culture. Thank you.