Artist Samantha Yun Wall spoke about her newest body of work in the solo exhibition “Nothing to be Afraid of” at Timothy Hawkinson Gallery. These works explore her identity as a Black Korean “Amerasian” immigrant through the use of female archetypes found in East Asian and Western storytelling traditions to explore themes of hybridity, transformation, and feminine power. Wall found striking parallels between the female figures represented—who often defy traditional expectations, are transformed into altered beings, and treated as outcasts—and her lived experience as a multiracial woman navigating a world that often alienates and exoticizes those perceived as Other.