The Desert Walk Photo and Video Series by the artist Yoon Cho

The Desert Walk Series explores the relationship with our environments. Through her walk
performances captured in the series, the artist searches for life in the barren desert
landscapes along with her superimposed silhouette drawings of biological life forms such as
seeds, embryos, and pollen.

For ten years, Cho went through complex physical challenges until her son was born. During
that time, she became consumed with questions about conception of a life and how humanity
fits into this physical realm. Her difficult journey to motherhood and upbringing in a family of
physicians inspired her to explore the relationship between biological life forms and their
habitats. The series encapsulates beauty, destruction, and preservation of the land we
live in.

Yoon Cho and her husband traveled together for several years to capture the artist’s walk
performances in more than twenty desert sites throughout the country including Death
Valley, White Sands National Monument, Three Rivers Petroglyphs as well as lesser known
parts of America. The artist’s husband Dr. Ronald Cho assisted the artist with location photo
shoots in The Desert Walk Series. He has been working as a physician serving the
Westchester community over a decade.

The Desert Walk Series received Puffin Grant and Barbara Deming Memorial Funds.
The project is a fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts.