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SOTD: 蘇運瑩，時候

By: jasmine July 12, 2019July 12, 2019
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百葉凋香 瑰韻自賞 the fragrance of leaves decaying, the self-indulgent scent of rose

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SOTD: 선우정아 SWJA – 쌤쌤

By: mirae June 5, 2019July 12, 2019
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The charismatic Sunwoo Junga opens up realities of our behaviour.

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SOTD: Car, The Garden – 명동콜링

By: mirae February 9, 2019February 12, 2019
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The cover that made everyone fall in love with Car, The Garden.

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SOTD: 起風了，吳青峰

By: jasmine February 7, 2019February 7, 2019
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青峰 covering 買辣椒也用卷 covering Yu Takahashi singing “The Wind Rises”

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SOTD: 明仔載，盧廣仲

By: jasmine July 7, 2018July 7, 2018
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明仔載  明仔載   坐在你的摩托車 tomorrow, tomorrow, let’s take your motorbike

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SOTD: 艷火，張懸

By: jasmine March 17, 2018March 25, 2018
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The strength of 艷火 is in the precision of its lyrical introspection, and the strong yearning that binds the words to the voice of 張懸.

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wandering some landscapes with @patternsandportraits for the next season. 💕
#CarpDreams // I have a love-hate relationship with fish and am considerably obsessed with writing them into my poems. This may or may not be due to the fact that I am poetically the manifestation of a shoreline and therefore invested in bodies of water. If A Carp Dreams Of The Milky Way is both literally and not literally about fish. It’s also about planets and language and grief and mythology. It’s a nerdy, stardusty chapbook and I can’t wait for it to come into this world 😌
rp from @penrosepress 🐉 // In january I emailed Brianna and Natalie asking if they would be interested in working with me to publish a manuscript I had as a scroll. They said y e s. 😚 When I was 8, my family moved to the historical literary city, Suzhou 蘇州. I didn’t know then the significance of that sleepy, old landscape being plowed for manufacturing redevelopment, but the architecture, art, rock gardens, tea culture and abundant literature grew a distinctive sensibility in me (maybe that’s when my soul became a grandma). Dialoguing about paper, formats, colours, images, and all the other little parts that will make this manuscript whole trigger a lot of details from those 4 years of childhood: wooden lattice patterns, grottos, lotus ponds, bamboo groves, stone tiles, berry picking, mountain fog and the vast 西湖—specificities I didn’t know I carried, piled quietly into my corners or airborne in my memories. “If A Carp Dreams Of The Milky Way” 「若鯉魚夢見銀河」will be out some time in the fall. Maybe I’ll share more stories around it over the next few months? 😌
O u t. ✌️
All through July I’ll be hanging with this fantastic bunch of creatives, incubating their ideas and projects and dreaming up radical futures together. #DiasporasianFutures is a dream come true for P40’s inheritance year programming and i’m so grateful that it’s happening. Thx @artreachto & @torontoartscouncil ♥️
im a heat bb. its my biology. above 25 degrees i am invincible. and always down for day sleeps. ✌️
// 盛： abundant, full, flourishing. 夏：summer. // 盛夏 (shèngxià)：midsummer, the height of summer. In exactitude: fullness, heat, laughter and heartbreak and day sleeps and forgotten nights spilling over and over in lazy waves, in slow motion, in the disappearing tail of a firework and the quivers of tall grass against a blue sky. literally: summer in abundance.
#tbt to a glorious tea & chocolate tasting that @chrwonstie & i did as part of #jabscollab’s Twenty-Five programming 😌 what a night it was. who wants more?
@hellokellyland & i did a stop motion gif-making workshop as part of @regentparkfilm’s Home Made Visible series at the Don Mills Public Library ♥️ my favourite part of workshopping is sharing the energy of someone who’s discovering their own creative capacity and becomes excited by it. I often see it in the way they look at their work. That moment of recognition is so beautiful and it gives me so much hope. 🌱

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the sky was beautiful // “someone who says ‘again, once more’ already has the ability to start something new in their heart.” — jung hae yoon. - “다시 라고 말하는 사람의 마음 안에는 이미 새로 출발하는 능력이 있다." — 정혜윤 PD, #일간이슬아 인터뷰에서. 새로운 도전은 다시 친구를 사귀어야 되고; 다시 내가 좋아하는 카페, 책방, 공원을 찾아야되고; 다시 나를 기쁘게 하는 날씨를 정해야되고; 다시 나의 편안함을 찾아야 되는 것이다. 새로운 도전은 안정함에 머물지 않고 다시 삶을 만들어 본다는 마음가짐이다.
visits to west coast lands i will soon be further away from, thanks to friends and family, or excuses to see more, experience more, and eat more seafood. - 젊을 때 많이 봐야한다고. 가까울 때 많이 가봐야한다고. 곧 지구 반대편으로 가는데 지금 기회가 있을 때 가야지. 이렇게라도 이번 여름에 돈 많이 쓴거 괜찮다고 위로해야지. 미래에 언제 또 만나자. - from a hike up vancouver’s st mark’s summit (& clumsy me getting injured, of course); a walk up los angeles’ griffith observatory; an evening walk near my cousin’s seattle home. miigwetch to the coast salish: musqueam, tsleil-waututh, squamish, kwikwetlem, duwamish, and chumash, gabrieleño, tataviam.
여행을 하는 동안 매일 아침에 찾아오는 #일간이슬아. 하루를 시작하기 전, 하루를 마무리 하기 전, 새로운 곳을 향한 버스, 지하철, 비행기안에서, 불안정하고 끝없는 주변 의식과 미래의 걱정 속에 매일 찾아와 평온한 시간을 만들어 주는 이야기들. - 혼자 새 도시를 돌아다니다 카페에 들어가 점심을 먹으며 유진목 작가님의 인터뷰를 읽었다. 자기 삶을 솔직하게 살아가는 그녀가 너무나도 멋있다고 느껴졌다. 그리고 그녀의 말들은 지금 내가 인생에 질문하고 생각하는 것들에 어떤 위로를 주는 거 같았다. (사진은 코퀴틀람과 시애틀에서) - every morning i’m greeted with an email containing a story of someone’s life. during my trip, i’ve been reading it either right when i wake up or before i close the day, or while on some vehicle heading towards somewhere new. today i read lee sulla’s interview with writer mok eugene at a cafe in a new city. their honest intimate conversation brought solace to the questions i’ve been throwing at the world. (photos: coquitlam and seattle)
a moment from this june pt.3 // trying to move towards nature 근데 허당이라서 계속 넘어지고 그게 잘 안된다...
a moment from this june pt.2 // trying to move towards water more and enjoy times with people i love.
a moment from this june pt.1 // trying to enjoy this city when it’s the most beautiful.
그것은 오늘의 뉴스거리가 될거고 우리는 어떠한 날 처럼 보편적인 하루를 마무리할거다. 하지만 그들한테는 오늘은 기억에서 항상 남아있을 날이 될거고 하루를 믿고 싶지 않으며 밤을 설칠거다. 아무렇지 않게 지나가는 우리의 모습이 참 부끄럽다. - thinking about loss and witnessing other’s sorrow; outsider’s temporal interest and passing by; how a day gets marked with so much pain for one, yet others move on. / photos from a car ride to the incheon airport many months ago.
i decided to create a piece that is reflective on how my brain functions bilingually simultaneously. i sometimes have no idea what language i’m speaking to my bf because i’m going back and forth so much & i only know when i pause myself to recall the words i’ve just spoken. i only started to read korean books and write paragraphs in korean a couple of years ago. i’ve depended on english to express myself until university when i realized korean felt more truthful to me and i felt the need (& interest) to learn more about the language that i’ve never had a chance to properly learn. having immigrated here at age 7, i could only have developed an intimate relationship with korean because my dad continuously sends me long messages & i desire to reply with a comprehensible language; and because i desire to communicate with my brother & understand the latest slangs and ideas. the piece in @projectx40c’s looseleaf staff anthology is special for another reason. the korean text are taken from my phone notes written at various points of my early twenties - an ongoing journey when they started to have expectations for me, when i realized i needed to come to terms, when i began to feel more comfortable with myself. very thankful to be part of this with some of the wonderful people at p40 & looseleaf. this staff anthology is for sale, if you want to grab a copy!
몇년 동안 못 보고 느낄 여기의 여름을 열심히 즐겨보자. - when sky meets water and nothing is visible beyond; my favourite view
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