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Mirae is a visual-text content creator, and an emerging cultural producer and anthropologist who calls both Seoul and Toronto her home. She expresses herself through Korean music, and uses it as a diary of her daily trajectory.

Review: 아이유 IU [꽃갈피]

By: mirae July 13, 2018July 15, 2018
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IU’s first remake album: flower petals in our diaries.

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A Mixtape for Café Integral

By: mirae May 30, 2018June 24, 2018
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A fun rhythmic spring playlist for a nice cold brew stop.

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Review: 뜨거운 감자 [시소]

By: mirae May 8, 2018July 15, 2018
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A diary from a romanticist poet: the indie duo, Hot Potato’s imaginary film soundtrack.

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SOTD: 새소년 – 긴 꿈 A Long Dream

By: mirae March 2, 2018March 5, 2018
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The “new boy” in town who’s slowly taking over the rock scene.

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AF: 문문 MoonMoon

By: mirae January 25, 2018July 15, 2018
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A retrospective of MoonMoon and his emerging career.

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Review: 웨스턴 카잇 Western Kite [Subtitle]

By: mirae October 26, 2017July 15, 2018
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Mirae’s feature of her new fave artist, Western Kite and her A+ 9-song collection.

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Recently been reading up on the millennial obsession with houseplants as a way of care and control in an era of financial instability, anxiety and overwork. All this to say, my hedera’s doing quite well these days 😂
Going through this @reelasian collection of essays on and by Asian Canadian cinema and filmmakers and my heart is stirred in so many ways. I don’t have strong film background but know so many of these names through their impact on Asian Canadian representation at large and their work opening doors for new generations. I come to film through storytelling and diaspora and have always felt that everything is connected. Meeting these filmmakers in the familiar territory of literature has been another kind of wonderful, and reminds me again how awesome this adventure is; how postcolonial lit plunged me into the heart of diaspora and P40 took me into interdisciplinary community art. How serendipity and blood, sweat and tears are to be thanked in equal measure, both my own and of the people around and before me 💕
Visited the Banksy exhibition yesterday & had a lot of conflicting feels about it. Held in a warehouse in the strain of Toronto’s usual hip art trappings, a “cool” space with colour lights, a photo wall ... 🙄 the last stop of the exhibit was obviously the museum store where prints are reproduced on mediocre quality tees and tote bags, mugs, coasters blah blah for exorbitant prices...and... you can buy a red balloon that says “Banksy” on it and people were releasing it to float to the ceiling... 🤨 after “Girl with the Red Balloon”of course. they were also selling alcohol, artisanal ice cream bars and Aroma cafe service 🤷🏻‍♀️ anyway. My takeaway was irony <- name of some obscure IPA i guess
I pulled my first mug handle yesterday. It was much harder than it looked. I failed the first four times. 🤷🏻‍♀️
In today’s chocolate tasting news... some scrumptious dark bars by @chocosoltraders - vanilla sea salt bar at 65% cacao and the darkness bar at 75% both mixed with raw cane sugar 😍😍😋 thx @chrwonstie 💕 #muneats
me too buddy, me too.
Greater happiness is none than this, that one should enjoy a cup of ceylon with a honey madeleine on a warm summer day. #john15 #inthejasminebible
June 10th / we practiced for weeks, but @taicedric was tipsy and i ate so much meat that day so we weren’t even close to our best. but it’s our wedding; what you gonna do?
June 10th / a day the wonderful @janicecyli shot in analogue. was it worth capturing my wedding on film only? yes. 100% yes.

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burden(some) // what burdens do you carry from your family, your cultural history, your lived experiences? - much love to @artstartsto for believing in this project that @ayebbey and i have been holding dearly in our hearts for awhile. - we hope to create more safe and welcoming spaces like these. where we can open ourselves to each other. where we can lend our ears to each other. - first photo by @jingdraws.
burden(some) // our stories and experiences became beautiful clay tiles which, together, became even beautiful art. - many people have commented on how everyone’s tiles are so unique despite all of us having shared the same spaces. but despite collaborating together to reimagine our burdens, we all hold unique stories and experiences. - first & last photo by @jingdraws. (seeing myself in jing’s photos have been helping me feel okay with being on camera.)
couldn’t have created such wonderful spaces, met such wonderful people, and shared such wonderful art without @ayebbey. - pat on our backs. we survived june! (and i’d like to repeat kim’s words, that yes, we did look good on sunday~) - sharing some beautiful things from burden(some) sooon!!
the first and the last time during my years here when pretentious business people invited me and pretended they cared about my opinion. on that day, i also took the only photo of me and the iconic building. - 5년동안 여기서 대학생활을 하면서 여러 좋은 사람들을 만나고 영원히 소중한 친구들도 만들고 많은 것들을 배우고 경험했다. - 어쩌다보니 하와이와 상해도 가게 되었고. 어쩌다보니 1학년 1학기 어떤 수업에서 에세이 테마가 너무 싫어 교수님한테 가서 다른 거 해도 되냐고 나도 몰랐던 당당함과 뻔뻔함 그리고 열정의 부탁을한 순간부터 나는 마지막까지 대학 공부를 내가 하고 싶은대로 하고 있었다. (나의 욕심에 어떤 인류학 컨퍼런스에서 한국힙합과 세계화에 대한 페이퍼를 발표하고 대학교를 끝냈다.) - 그리고 나는 어쩌다보니 어른이 되어 가고 있었다. 마지막 학년에 나는 학생에서 사회인으로 커가는 과정을 거치고 있어서 그랬던건지 대학이 끝이 났다는게 크게 와 닿지가 않다. - here’s to my five years.
작년의 오늘. - 내가 여기서 누리고 헤어나가고 있는 삶을 다른 도시에서도 편히 할 수 있다면 얼마나 좋을까. 여기서 할 수 있으면 거기서도 할 수 있을까. 언젠간 하고 있겠지. if i could do what i’m doing here in a different city. - i still need to organize my photos from last summer.
a nice lil week of sharing for #p40takeover. you can get a peek into my creative practice and thoughts, but mostly rambles @projectx40c. - thanks @jingdraws for this.
- alone and anonymous in a big city. a city so familiar yet so new. a city that my mom introduced me when i was 13, and i fell in love with it so much that she took me again a month later. i remember walking down the streets of chelsea, holding my brother’s small hand. the year my mom wanted to do so much for a year she was here. - a city of my high school dreams. - 익숙하면서도 새로운 환경에 바쁜 삶을 살고 있는 사람들 사이에 아무도 아닌 익명으로 혼자 대도시를 마음대로 돌아다닐때 느껴지는 흥분을 어떤 말로도 표현할 수가 없다. - 정말로 필요했던 여행. 나를 위한 여행. 탈출이라고 말할 수도 있다. 나의 끝입없이 바쁜 생활의 탈출. 아빠가 말했다, 피하지 말고 두통이랑 친구되라고.
cooking with love, and filling ourselves with lots of beautiful greens and carbs.
tiny snippet of my march which really drilled right in from the first week while i was adjusting from a wonderful week in singapore, but still welcomed me with bright colours and people in the gloom of season transition. - 음울한 날씨에 그래도 밝은 색깔들이 있었던 삼월. 한달안에 너무나도 많은 일들이 생기고 또 해내고, 많은 사람들 만나고 또 헤어지고, 많은 것들을 배우고 또 잃고. 어차피 몇 년간 여기 더 있을 텐데 긍정적인 마음으로 지내야지.
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