In a live performance, you can never tell the result of the process until you have the final element: the audience. In the final stage of the work when audience enters into the process, things come to the full circle. The performer meets the audience through the work she created.

Indigo dyeing process has something similar to this. Indigo and I collaborate. I stay with the plant from the seeds to the fruition and tend to their growth and care for their best health life. The process we go through together comes into the color the plants produce in the end. The fabric that absorbs and manifests the color is the medium. As a collaborator and a director, I become the first audience member to get to experience this production before it becomes exposed to other people's eyes.

Growing a tropical indigo plant in a place where it's cold for 80% of the time had been such a patience training for me. Waiting and wondering when to start planting indoor, when or if I should move it to the green house, and when to place transplant into the ground outside. Even after the last frost, some cold nights visited. The leaves went red, withered, a little brown, but miraculously, they revived every time. Life of plants is truly amazing. The color of teal blue it produced into the fabric is something beyond the word 'natural' or 'gorgeous', holding in the whole process and experience the plant went through. Witnessing and tending this process is honorable.