
It's the first exhibition I visited
since I came back from London last summer.
In Seoul, sadly not deniably, there have been no composure.
I still know it might sound like an excuse, but really no composure.
Actually I know why.
The reason is... the tempo? pattern? of life, usually called lifestyle.
I mean, in Seoul, the way I live is totally different
from when I stay in other cities.
It's not about being busy, but more about the weight of life.
Where I have daily routine, organised one, that's Seoul.
Heavy!!!
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Anyway, today! I was quite decisive.
After English lesson(do not laugh! I earn quite a lot),
I didn't go straight back home
where free food, free drink, everything free waiting for me.
I went to Sinchon to meet my friends.
There, rather than chatting,
I read a book about Hong Kong, a guide..
(I'm going to HK in coming August!! through Exchange program)
In fact my friends were doing their team project, so..
After finishing nice sandwich and a Perrier,
I left heading to Kyobo bookstore
to get another guide, this one is Bangkok.
I love the city, too!!!
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And finally went to Ilmin art gallery,
attracting to the word "Criticism".
Since I started to study Cultural Criticism as my second major,
not easy to ignore the word.
There, I again and again felt a sense of inferiority...
The problem is again ART!!
What I once dreamed and gave up so easily.
no excuse here.
coz... the one who gave up is myself anyway.
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People who creates, not only art, are the only ones who can survive
in this cruel money world.
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What I need at this moment is the very feeling of
"I am PRODUCING!".
I'm struggling now.
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My current two issues are
1. What 'Creating', 'Producing' I can do.
2. How to live naturally as I am
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I found this crucial word at the exhibition.
"그대를 다른 누군가로 만들기 위해 밤낮으로 안간힘을 다 하는
그 같은 시대에 그 누구도 아닌 그대 자신이 되고자 한다는 것은
인간이 치룰 수 있는 가장 힘겹고 결코 끝나지 않는
전쟁을 치른다는 뜻이다."
Robert J. W..
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Sorry..
It was written in Korean, even the name.
The last name sounds like "works?" but I don know how to spell.. and
of course not easy to find the original version in Eng.
/
Anyway,
It says, simply, to live as onself is like
carrying on the hardest, endless war that human can cope with.
true... yes... It's terribly difficult.
no one help me to do so,
but everywhere I hear orders given from this world,
"You are not enough. Change!"
I'm struggling only to know who I am and stay with myself.
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*The reason I keep this in Eng is to practice first, and..
to write in my mother tongue sometimes leads to disguising..
Being too fluent is not good.