we have the, the ice skating sibling duo maia and alex shibutani, we have actress karen fukuhara. she's the actress in amazon's the boys and just. yeah, a great, inspiring group of people. >> yeah. why? artifacts because i was reading about adoption papers, for example, holding so much significance for one person. can you give us some examples of these possessions and how they have this tie to our memory, to our cultural identity? >> yeah, i think, well, the whole reason i started this project was as a second generation korean american myself, i've always tried to navigate that balance of identity and of, cultural identity and just being myself as an individual. and i thought personal stories behind objects would be the perfect way to do that, one of my favorite objects and stories was merle dandridge's. she brought a cute elephant statuette of a mom elephant and baby elephant. and basically the story behind that one is that her mom went to this mountain in korea to pray for her when she was pregnant with her, she was very nervous about having a mixed race kid in the 70s. merrill