Shin’s sculptures in ceramic, brass, concrete, and steel poetically consider the realities of distance, displacement, yearning, connection, and loss. Shin’s process originates with written poetry, words and terms from which are then formed through the physical dimensions and geographical placement of her own body and gestures. Over the past years, Shin’s sculptures have extended beyond her own physicality, outwards into cultural systems that affect immigrant bodies– from the forms of the migrant laborer’s body to vessels for communion with other selves and home.