Introducing my first co-work artist Yoon Kyung Choi for the Project of “Stitching around the Gender Gaps: Azumma goes to the Art World” at Central Saint Martins MA AI Degree Show.Choi works in Bonn, Germany as a researcher in geodetic data science. Born in Japan, she was raised in Korea and graduated Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and finished her PhD in Astronomy from University of Tokyo in Japan with the Japanese Government Scholarship, MEXT. Subsequently she worked in radio astronomy in Japan, Germany, and Korea, measuring distances in our galaxy.She is married to a Finnish-born man she met in Germany working in astronomy. They are raising two kids. Their children were born in Germany and Korea, respectively; all four family members have a different birth country.Sounds like a “happy” cosmopolitan genius story?Not really.She was attempting to build a multicultural family in Korea, but after some years opted to emigrate in order to avoid ever worsening air pollution and the excessively competitive education system that left no time for kids to be kids. Korean society was also not such a good place for multicultural families – though her husband disagrees.After they emigrated back to Bonn, Germany, she did not immediately have a job. During her two-year employment gap outside of an international research institute setting she felt “aimless” and “useless”, since she didn’t speak German.She feels she needs to prove herself continually who she is, as a stranger with her broken languages, not in perfect English, German, Japanese or even in her mother tongue Korean.Subsequently she rediscovered her talent in handcrafts and music, and started to decorate children’s birthday parties, sew costumes, and knit to demonstrate that she was still “useful”. Her hobbies make Dr Choi the one and only knitting astronomer who – in this project – tells us how big our cosmos is and how tiny our own differences on the Earth are, expressing these scales via calculated stitches.