In 2014, my mother went through surgery because she was diagnosed with skin cancer on her face. It made me afraid of the surgery because I could not be with her for her operation. After the successful surgery, she had to undergo chemotherapy. Although the operation and chemotherapy gave her a scar on her face and weakness to her body, she was only getting better and healthier. In fall 2020, I had to undergo an operation to get rid of a cyst. Witnessing my mother's healing process got me brave, and the surgery went well. After facing the surgery indirectly and directly, I realized collage is like an operation. Collage makers have to cut the fragile paper, like a patient's feeble body, following the line carefully and delicately. Then, the cut fragments are pasted together by tapes, glues, and stitching methods. When the stitch-up part is done, the surgery provides a cure, and the collage gives a new art piece. When I was little, a few family members lived in Japan, so we often visited them. During the visits, Japanese colored papers got my most attention. The colored papers had a wide range of colors, patterns, and textures, so I filled my backpack with them. I made as many things as I wanted with them because making a crane with the same method, every crane looked distinctive according to the paper's color, pattern, and texture. As a photographer, I embody the diversity of expressions of paper by making my own prints with my photos. I moved to America to study by myself for a decade during my adolescent period. I did not know much about American cultures and language like a blank canvas. However, the more time I spent in America, the more brush strokes were filling the blank canvas. The period that I lived in South Korea and the time I stayed in the states were different, but they harmonized well, which formed 'me.' I feel this harmony from making a collage with many different cutouts, so I believe collage is the best medium to describe 'me.'