**On December 19, I’ll lead you through the Wende Museum in *DogStar Codex: Return of the Flower Knight*.**

We’ll move together through the galleries, into a celestial garden of costumes from 30 years of my work, and finally into the theater. I invite you to take part in a rite of return.

That night marks 37 years to the day since I arrived in Los Angeles from Korea. I’ve spent those years making worlds where people who were told they don’t belong can feel divine. This show is the circle closing.

**I’m raising $8,000 to build the celestial garden, pay the people bringing the show to life, and professionally document the work so it can travel.**

I’m Yozmit, a Korean-American performance artist, composer, and visionary. I was a re-performer in Marina Abramović’s *The Artist Is Present* at MoMA and received the COLA Master Artist Fellowship, the California Arts Council Established Artist Fellowship, and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Trailblazer Award.

I call this piece my own “transcendent K-pop.” Corporeal mime meets hip-hop and house. Victorian, Kabuki, and neo-burlesque influences shape the costume transformations. Korean traditional music meets electronic sound, and Korean shamanism inspires the ceremonial journey.

At the heart of the work is the Flower Knight, inspired by Korea’s Hwarang and reimagined through queer mythology. I see the sword in tarot as a symbol of personal power, clarity, and voice. The Flower Knight carries it through the garden with softness and valor. In that walk, I recognize my own story of finding my voice and learning to live on my own terms.

Making this work means rehearsing and building costumes while also raising funds, coordinating a team, and working the jobs that keep the project going. For years, every dollar went into production, and I paid myself last. For the first time, I’ve put a real artist fee for myself into the budget. That’s part of how I’m practicing DoYou, my philosophy of becoming fully oneself. For me, it means valuing my own labor enough to pay for it, reaching out for help, and letting love return.

*DogStar Codex* is supported in part by the City of Culver City, Sony Pictures, and Culver Arts.

**Your gift will help fund the work in four ways.**

- The celestial garden installation, bringing together costumes from 30 years of my work.

- Production and collaborator fees for a show brought to life by a team of twenty, including musicians, dancers, designers, stylists, a film crew, and volunteers.

- My artist fee for creating, directing, and performing the work.

- Professional documentation I can share with museums and venues as I work to bring *DogStar Codex* to other cities in the U.S. and abroad.

If you’re able to give, thank you. If you can share this campaign with someone who might connect with the work, that’s a gift too. And I’d love to see you on **December 19 at the Wende Museum in Culver City**. The performance is free and open to all.

With so much love and gratitude,

Yozmit

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