In this body of work, I explored the concept of sweated labor—workers employed for low pay, often enduring long hours and poor conditions. As a child of garment workers in California, I sought to learn more about the history of Asian American garment labor. Using rice, sweat, and thread as my primary materials, I reflected on how Asian American immigrants historically undertook, and in some cases continue to perform, this type of work to support their families. Much of the work also plays with visibility and invisibility, speaking to how the labor of immigrants is often referred to as "invisible labor." For some pieces, I literally collected hours of my own sweat to steam rice that I had individually hand-stitched onto garments. Other works embodied time and labor, such as a calendar stitched with the hours my mother worked each day at the dry cleaning store, or grains of rice that were cooked, pierced, dried, strung, and threaded onto a needle each day. This body of work represents my reflections on materials, time, and the labor of my parents and community, as well as my relationship to them as an artist.