For Anese Eun Cho, a lighthouse is not just a symbol. It is a structure made of light that lets you be fully visible without walls, fully protected without hiding. In this interview, she talks about childhood portals, strangers who stayed until sunrise, and what it means to transform pain into something that gives others hope.

Dallas-based artist Anese Cho on her Lighthouse series, why light is her primary material, and how childhood shaped a practice built around refuge and safety.