Kwinnie Lê is an artist, researcher, poet and shapeshifter. Drawing from mythology, folklore and oral histories, they situate ancestral traditions within contemporary urban life, aiming to re-suture narratives of classification. Currently, their research revolves around the revival and revitalization movement of traditional skin marking. "The Land of the Tattooed", the name borrowed from an ancient state of Vietnam, is an ongoing world-building project that employs semi-fictional narratives and critical speculation to render tattoo histories within a contemporary art canon. This body of work engages with various themes such as the historical utility of tattoos for colonial classification, the racial stratification of the ornament and the planetary crisis. Although rooted in erased histories, fiction becomes a tool to arrive at uncompromising hope. As a practitioner and revivalist of skin marking, their work aligns with the Vietnamese ancestral tradition. The works are manifested in performances, textile and storytelling, though traversing into many more forms.