I am a Two-Spirit singer-songwriter, interdisciplinary performance artist, visual artist, and costume designer. I started my career as a fashion designer but rediscovered myself as a performance artist through the practice of physical theater, dance, and traditional Korean music - "Pansori" and "Gayageum-Byungchang". Instead of transforming my physical body from male to female, I choose to use spiritual practice through a Buddhistic approach of transcendence and art practice as tools for my liberation from personal and social conflicts around gender and identity. I believe that there is immense power to be found beyond one's dualistic thought processes and tapping into the unknown mysteries of Self.

  My work is transformation. I believe the discipline of the creative process embodies and manifests metamorphosis. My work has continuously evolved my understanding of Self. I believe that my work creates the potential for others to do the same.

  My art is about Self. I gave my artist-self the name Yozmit, meaning “myth about one's self." Tapping into the goddess power, I use sound, visual, and the physicality of the human body as a holy trinity to create an image of the goddess named Yozmit as my higher channel alter ego using my given male form but embodying both the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine. Yozmit transcends gender but is a powerful compassionate heroine who guides me to my highest potential beyond the limitations of trans-identified Korean male. As Yozmit’s agent and caretaker, I create looks, songs, situations, and public performances that represent Yozmit and spread her message of "DoYou." "DoYou" meaning "Do" ing "You" - a process of becoming fully self-realized and acting upon self-identity. DoYou is my artistic mantra to shift power from external conformity to internal realization.

  My voice as an artist comes from my mother’s oppression in her own DNA of becoming a singer. She is a living example of the damaged feminine in modern Korean society. She wanted to be a singer when she was in school, but in conservative 1950s Korea, being a female singer was tantamount to being a prostitute. Nevertheless, she would secretly sing in a jazz club in the American army base in Seoul after school. When her brother found out, she was stopped publicly and violently as he considered her actions to be a shame to the family name. Her traumatic memories continued in my blood through my own journey of becoming a singer in Korea. When I attempted to become a pop singer, the first thing I was told from my music label was not to reveal my gender identity. I was bullied and physically abused by my music producer because of who I was. Through this process, I started to see the bigger picture of power dynamics in the realm of gender and the total disharmony between masculine and feminine. I decided to create art that will help restore this balance within my self, my audience, my family, and my beloved Korean culture. 

I create Yozmit's music with intention as a medicine object in the spirit of Korean shamanistic tradition. My new album SUN MOON DOOR combines electronic dance music and traditional Korean style singing in many different languages. My purpose in this album is to take my work to the next level of its evolution by making my original music as the central spine of my performance work. I believe I can harness my understanding of ancient wisdom and deep healing frequencies of traditional Korean music and art to share with a mainstream audience. As I have written in the lyrics of my song DOGSTAR, “Sunrise in the night". My goal is to embrace the highest teachings to bring together the light and dark, yin and yang of my incomprehensible universe.