Cy Thao´s The Hmong Migration is a cycle of fifty paintings chronicling the migration of Southeast Asia's Hmong people, a saga that goes back thousands of years. The nine panels on view here concern the Hmong's relationship with the United States. Although Thao has trained as a professional artist, this piece was created in a consciously "outsider" narrative style, mirroring the "story-cloth" tapestries he saw being made by his compatriots in the Thai refugee camps during his childhood.Thao, who was born in Laos and lives in Minnesota, affirms, "I want the series to educate the younger generation, to have some closure with the generation that went through the war, and hopefully become a historical document for generations to come." Thao's intent in this series was to expose the difficulties, menaces, and effects of any migration process.