MISSION: PERFECTION (2006). Handmade cotton, esparto, and abaca paper, cyanotypes, and staples. Bound in a single-section cased binding and letterpress printed, edition of ten (second printing); 18.5 x 13 x 0.25" closed.

This autobiography details the overwhelming devotion of a mother who performed actions on her daughter's body to create a more perfect version that fit specific goals of cultural beauty and acceptance. This oversized manual reveals layers of life as the child of first-generation immigrants and as a woman caught in the project of assimilation.

Generously supported by the Helen Fong Dare Scholarship.

Collections: Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection: Books as Aesthetic Objects, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Columbia Center for Book & Paper Arts, Center for Asian Arts and Media, MOMA Library, Oberlin College Clarence Ward Art Library, and Virginia Commonwealth University Book Art Collection.

First printing (edition of two) in the collections of Yoonshin Park and Terttu Uibopuu.