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Center for Asian American Media's Ravi Chandra MD: The artists of Hungry Ghosts shatter these stereotypes and transmit healing through their work. They are shamanic voyagers to the underworld of personal and cultural wounds, emerging with the medicine of artistic insight. All wounds are relational. All suffering is a crisis of disconnection, from self and other

Beyond The Studio posted a wonderful interview podcast allowing me to talk deeply about my life, purpose, art, spirituality, healing, history, A PLACE OF HER OWN and wishes.

Gradually, as she addressed issues Asian women face, things like silencing, violence, shaming, exclusion, racism, etc. Cynthia incorporated art and artistic expression as a culturally acceptable catalyst for change.

Some of that trauma as Cynthia noted is passed down, through relatives-ancestors. It was also over a two decades ago when she began to uncover her own painful family history of the Chinese immigrants that were detained at Angel Island.

Cynthia’s grandmother Hom Shee Mock was among the thousands of immigrants detained at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, during the early part of the 20th Century. Often referred to as the “Ellis Island of the West,” Angel Island treated the Chinese, specifically, as non-humans. There are many sad stories of injustice, degradation, and exploitation.

Article by Jonathan Farrell for DigitalJournal.com