#Soojung Park

[atomimperatrix]

Just drawing something randomly (again 😅). So this is my OC Soojung who is Sungchul's older sister from Fence. Btw she is watching Sungchul's match quietly 🤫

[longlistshort]

Sculptures by Emily Sudd

Sculptures by Kyung Boon Oh

Work by Cheyann Washington

Photography by Kate Turning

Pictured above are some selections from Plateaus: Art That Resonates, a multisensory group exhibition at Art Share L.A. exploring the dualities of life that artists bring into their work.

From the gallery-

Art Share L.A. is pleased to present Plateaus: Art that Resonates a multidisciplinary and multisensory immersive art exhibition that explores dualities: art and craft, death and life, grief and love, and activity and stillness. These contrasts exist with an interdependent bond, reminding us that bonds are intrinsic and often intertwined partners. In multiple materials, processes, and scales, monument-like creations are revealed through thoughtful burnishing of passion.  The exhibition curated by Stacie B. London features seven visual artists: Amanda Maciel Antunes, Kyong Boon Oh, Hadley Holiday, Soojung Park, Emily Sudd, Kate Turning, and Cheyann Washington, along with additional contributions of ikebana by members of Sogestu Los Angeles, music by Rocco DeLuca, perfume by Lesli Wood (La Curie Eau de Parfume), and seating by Hunter Knight. Through a shared refinement of intentional experimentation with their mediums – acrylic panels, clay, glass, ink, photography, scent, sound, stone, thread, tree stumps, and wire– these artistic achievements reveal work that is brave, meditative, resilient, and vulnerable.

Our five senses inform our experiences and knowledge and assist us in ordering the world. In Plateaus: Art that Resonates the traditional forms of visual art of painting, photography, and sculpture are broadened to include aural art — via music and sound — and olfactory art. These multisensory and immersive pieces enhance the experience of viewing visual art and introduce additional dualities: sight with smell, smell with hearing, and hearing with sight. The expanded human experiences in an art gallery switch the expected experiences and invite the possibility of a familiar experience in a new way, or a breakthrough!

Breakthroughs often occur after long periods of what often seems like stagnation, or a plateau. It’s instinctual to want growth to be a continual upward trend, but instead it’s usually a series of long, flat periods (plateaus) of work with few visible results. Seemingly out of nowhere the plateau makes space for a breakthrough of creativity or growth—an intermittent moment when everything comes together. Instead of focusing on the result, it’s good to get comfortable in the plateau.

The artists and artisans of Plateaus: Art that Resonates use a broad range of approaches and techniques towards creative creations that are examples of how to grapple dualities, navigate the plateaus of life, and share breakthroughs that transmute our awareness of mortality into loving engagements with life and it’s contradictions and opposing perspectives that inspire and infuse life with meaning, immediacy, awareness, and appreciation.

Below are two of the ikebana created by members of Sogetsu Los Angeles.

This exhibition closes this Saturday (11/16) with a closing reception from 6-9 pm.

[lookismstuff]

Gun's Tragedy

To me, the tragedy of Gun as the Genius in Nurture is this. While he genuinely enjoyed nurturing, he was always, always meant to lose or tear down what he himself built up.

He gradually lost all of those meaningful connections with his former protégés or disciples: Eli, Jake, Olly, Daniel, and even Crystal. Strangely, to me, the loss of his connection with Crystal feels more heartbreaking because it happened offscreen and felt so sudden and hard-hitting. What? He didn't even get to keep her as a friend because eventually her inheritance would be his?

And weren't Daniel and Crystal the only two among these protégés who still called him "brother", after all the others had left and/or died?

These losses, and the sad loss of his connection with Goo, were the results of his tainted ties with Charles Choi. Those ties gradually robbed him of all shreds of humanity that he still had.

And so Gun was called a Ghost, not purely because he was a terrifying presence, I think, but also because he lived like one.

What a bitter price to pay.

[teethburied]

I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK '싸이보그지만 괜찮아' 2006, dir. Park Chan-wook

[nu-abo-misser]

[tokumusume]

:¨ ·.· ¨: `· . ୨୧ f(x) cd plate scans

[fxoxota]

f(x) & SHINee = BESTIES 🫂 ʾ

[sscarletvenus]

crystal with charles choi/ lua with jake/ jake with gapryong/ samuel with gun AND gapryong

[eviyum]

Crystal : Where are you going?

Gun: To get ice cream or commit a felony, I’ll decide on the way there

[jiejiian]

If you need/want to appear in the manhwa, who you gonna call?

Gun oppa!

[kpop-girlsworld]

Lovelyz

[mei-youmeworld]

Lovelyz

[lookismstuff]

Behind the Names: The People Around Charles Choi (Gun, Goo, Crystal, the Kojima Brothers, Kouji, AND Byun Kim) - Fonts Re-edited, Additional Character.

Previous Posts

Behind the Names: Cheonliang Fam

Behind the Names: The Kings of the 1st Generation

Notes

A previous version of these edits appeared on Reddit.

Please read my replies under this post to read my disclaimer, sources, and side commentary on the names.

Picture attributions are available at the bottom of the edits

[teethburied]

Park Ilsoon + his masks

I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK '싸이보그지만 괜찮아' 2006, dir. Park Chan-wook

[azurekryptonite]

I doodled some of the girls from Lookism, it started as me doodling just Zoe and Crystal but then I drew the other J-High girls, then eventually everyone else lol

I've kinda been missing the J-High girls lately, hoping we'll get to seem them again once all the Gangism stuff calm down and Workers is out of the way.

....before anyone asks...Zoe and Sophia = Bsst Girls

[nu-abo-misser]