Honored to have taken part in Elsewhere, Still Ours, presented by PARKIM Agency at The Standard, East Village during NYCxDesign.
Being included in this exhibition alongside nine Korean and Korean diaspora artists and designers was a meaningful experience—each of us approaching identity, memory, and material in our own quiet, personal ways. The works, moving across ceramics, textile, stone, metal, and resin, held a sense of dialogue that felt both distant and deeply connected at the same time.
I am sincerely grateful to @parkim.picks@jkstreams@pandysark for the invitation and for creating such a thoughtful and generous space.
Wishing each of the artists continued growth and their own unfolding paths.
Photo by Nodeth Vang / Studio Vang
Courtesy of @thestandardeastvillage
Honored to have taken part in Elsewhere, Still Ours, presented by PARKIM Agency @thestandardeastvillage during NYCxDesign.
Being included in this exhibition alongside nine Korean and Korean diaspora artists and designers was a meaningful experience—each of us approaching identity, memory, and material in our own quiet, personal ways. The works, moving across ceramics, textile, stone, metal, and resin, held a sense of dialogue that felt both distant and deeply connected at the same time.
I am sincerely grateful to @parkim.picks@jkstreams@pandysark for the invitation and for creating such a thoughtful and generous space.
Wishing each of the artists continued growth and their own unfolding paths.
Honored to have taken part in Elsewhere, Still Ours, presented by PARKIM Agency @thestandardeastvillage during NYCxDesign.
Being included in this exhibition alongside nine Korean and Korean diaspora artists and designers was a meaningful experience—each of us approaching identity, memory, and material in our own quiet, personal ways. The works, moving across ceramics, textile, stone, metal, and resin, held a sense of dialogue that felt both distant and deeply connected at the same time.
I am sincerely grateful to @parkim.picks@jkstreams@pandysark for the invitation and for creating such a thoughtful and generous space.
Wishing each of the artists continued growth and their own unfolding paths.
Murakami Haruki said,
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
I’m drawn to this line.
The more I return to it, the less it feels like comfort and the more it reads as a stance.
He even chose his epitaph in advance:
“Writer (and runner) At least he never walked.”
What matters here is just one thing: that he never walked.
Not that he ran fast,
not that he finished first,
but that he didn’t stop.
This isn’t the language of achievement- it’s the language of endurance.
Not being good, but continuing.
Not a brilliant moment, but a sustained one.
“Talent is what survives”
is one of the most common lies we repeat.
But if you look closely at his life, you begin to see how fragile that belief is.
Talent, inspiration, even genius— they are only the starting signal.
What fills the next thirty years is not talent, but stamina.
The strength to endure boredom, to repeat without applause, to move through hours no one sees.
In the end, the ones who remain are not the most gifted, but the ones who never stop.
Moon by Yoon
#yoon_potter
Murakami Haruki said,
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
I’m drawn to this line.
The more I return to it, the less it feels like comfort and the more it reads as a stance.
He even chose his epitaph in advance:
“Writer (and runner) At least he never walked.”
What matters here is just one thing: that he never walked.
Not that he ran fast,
not that he finished first,
but that he didn’t stop.
This isn’t the language of achievement- it’s the language of endurance.
Not being good, but continuing.
Not a brilliant moment, but a sustained one.
“Talent is what survives”
is one of the most common lies we repeat.
But if you look closely at his life, you begin to see how fragile that belief is.
Talent, inspiration, even genius— they are only the starting signal.
What fills the next thirty years is not talent, but stamina.
The strength to endure boredom, to repeat without applause, to move through hours no one sees.
In the end, the ones who remain are not the most gifted, but the ones who never stop.
Moon by Yoon
#yoon_potter
Murakami Haruki said,
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
I’m drawn to this line.
The more I return to it, the less it feels like comfort and the more it reads as a stance.
He even chose his epitaph in advance:
“Writer (and runner) At least he never walked.”
What matters here is just one thing: that he never walked.
Not that he ran fast,
not that he finished first,
but that he didn’t stop.
This isn’t the language of achievement- it’s the language of endurance.
Not being good, but continuing.
Not a brilliant moment, but a sustained one.
“Talent is what survives”
is one of the most common lies we repeat.
But if you look closely at his life, you begin to see how fragile that belief is.
Talent, inspiration, even genius— they are only the starting signal.
What fills the next thirty years is not talent, but stamina.
The strength to endure boredom, to repeat without applause, to move through hours no one sees.
In the end, the ones who remain are not the most gifted, but the ones who never stop.
Moon by Yoon
#yoon_potter
