I was born handicapped. One of my eyes was not developed as normal and did not function. My mother thought she had done something wrong in having a handicapped baby.
It was quite visible, one eye did not open at all. I was born during the last year of the Korean war. My mother was very depressed and stressed while I was developing inside her.
My portrait in this painting shows that the handicap was not a big feature for me at all. My babyhood was influenced a lot by my mother’s stress.