A Quest for Intrinsically Valuable Shapes
Moon is a Costa Rican based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. He was born in Ohio to the daughter of North Korean refugees and the son of Chinese immigrants. Growing up gay and Asian American in the midwest, Moon struggled with finding his identity at a young age. It was only once he stopped adhering to predefined paths that he learned to trust his intuition and venture into rare and unexplored realms of consciousness.
Moon received a BS of Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati in 2018 where he worked on a broad range of projects from furniture, experimental toys, and ethical AI, to permaculture workstations and the potential for products to inspire wonder. These projects were interesting, but there seemed to be something fundamentally missing until 2016 when he was developing a group art therapy project that was designed to break down social barriers by allowing adults to engage in collaborative child-like states of play. Through this project, Moon realized the power of abstract art to change how we view and interact with the world and each other.
Over the years Moon has learned how to turn the creation and observation of art into a profound spiritual tool. Informed by Eastern spiritual teachings such as Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as Western thinkers like Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Ram Dass, Moon’s work is rooted in the sacred and profound nature of existence. He is constantly looking for new ways to create intrinsically valuable spiritual experiences and can often be found tinkering with new tools and exploring experimental methods for making art.