My work is centered around a core question: how do non-native entities make the shift from outcast to neighbor? As the child of immigrants, I approach this question through my family’s story as well as through the lens of migrant plants. Invasive plants, like migrants, are often judged by their origins and maligned by myths—stealing resources, outcompeting “natives,” bringing only harm. Yet plants and people move together across the globe, shaping and reshaping communities for good as well as ill. Examining how plants are received or rejected offers a powerful mirror for human experiences of displacement, assimilation, and belonging.I use photography, video, sculpture, and textile to investigate intergenerational migration. I remix archival home videos, photograph invasive plants alongside species of cultural significance in Taiwan and the U.S. and create chinoiserie-inspired wallpapers that both reflect my mixed Chinese and European heritage and critique the form’s colonial history. In parallel, I collaborate with ASU scientists Dr. Matthew Chew and Dr. Juliet Stromberg to study invasive species in my home, the Southwest, as metaphors for human migration, highlighting resilience and adaptive survival in a changing climate. I weave together ecological research with cultural narratives to challenge xenophobic myths and celebrate the beauty of resilience, adaptation, and interconnectedness.