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I’m [sketching] on Tumblr now!
Just when I thought my brain would explode with sparks made of Twitter links and Facebook updates, I created a “Mapping Words: Sketches” Tumblr account. I was hesitant to delve into Tumblr for the longest time because I didn’t understand it; it seemed like a platform filled with overly-shared material and confusing threads with no “about me” page...
A peek inside a Buddhist sculpture studio
Over the past few years, I’ve attended an array of lantern parades and festivals throughout Asia, filled with skillfully-crafted floats and lanterns. I snapped the photo above at the Buddha’s birthday lantern parade in 2009, and ever since, I’ve been curious as to how these massive, fragile works of art are created. Surprisingly, I happened...
Travelers with Sketchbooks: Kimberly Bryant
“Map” – At the airport in India, waiting to go to Egypt, I started mapping the path I was on, including a bit of the past, present, and future. I map my emotions rather than geographical locations. Unsurprisingly, I have a terrible sense of direction in ‘real’ life! *** Kimberly Bryant, the second artist featured...
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Paintings published in [b]racket magazine
A few months ago, Jess Hinshaw, one of the founders of [b]racket magazine, a Daegu-based art magazine, read one of my articles on Chincha?! and asked me if I’d like to contribute some of my artwork to their publication. I was honored. I submitted a few of my map-themed paintings and collages, and they were featured...
Travelers with Sketchbooks: Candace Rose Rardon
As artists, we are often inspired by travel. Sketchbooks are the ideal place to visually record our thoughts and observe new settings when roaming around the planet. I record my stories and photographs on a blog, but sometimes I prefer to turn off my computer, and instead, capture a scene on the smooth beige paper...
Anish Kapoor at the Leeum Samsung
Prior to last weekend, I didn’t know much about Anish Kapoor, an Indian artist residing in England, but after hearing many positive reviews, I visited the Leeum/Samsung Museum of Art to see his solo exhibition. I’ve been anxious to return to this particular museum ever since I viewed Do Ho Suh’s impressive solo, “Home Within...
Loveland: Jeju Island’s erotic sculpture park
We entered the park and and walked along a path laden with penis-shaped arrows, passing giant penis and vagina mosaics and sculptures of couples engaging in wild sex. We crossed paths with groups of ajosshi and ajumma (middle-aged Korean men and women) and heard a chorus of giggles. They must have been drunk. Or embarrassed. Or both. In...
By day: street art and steel factories in Mullae
A few weeks ago, I visited Mullae, “the art village of Seoul,” located on the Western side of the city in Youngdeungpo-gu. I shot some photos of the neighborhood at night, documenting the small metal and steel factories, narrow alleyways and street art illuminated by the dim glow of street lights. As I mentioned in...
Postcards from Europe: a project revealing travel illusions
The summer of 2010, after graduating from college, I moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands for a couple months to live with my then-boyfriend for the summer. We went to Amsterdam and saw the Van Gogh museum, snapped a few photographs of the canals, and participated in some other typical activities that tourists do. We even took...
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