Ib(y)angin was created in memory of Phillip Clay, a Korean American adoptee who died of suicide after he was deported from the U.S. back to South Korea, a country that he had no connection to since the age of 8. It was only at the age of 42 when Clay realized that he had never received U.S. citizenship which culminated in his deportation. This project reflects on the duality of being an Ibyangin ("adoptee" in Korean) and Ibangin ("stranger" in Korean) and the grey zone that exists between the two.

The paper is made by by shredding the U.S. Citizenship Form N-400 and embedding the seeds of Rose of Sharon, the national flower of South Korea. 

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