So Youn Lee’s gender-neutral protagonist, Mango, accompanied by Choco, a French bulldog sidekick, leads us on journeys through candy-coloured galaxies adorned with rainbow bubbles, eyeballs, and stars. But this is more than just a transcendent experience. Lee is inspired by her experience as an immigrant in the U.S. Her paintings are a metaphor for encounters of the self and strangers, and ordinary life as well as the hardships. Through Mango’s wide-eyed curiosity, Lee reinterprets these challenges as adventures worthy of exploration.