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Hyung Joo Kim
• May 30
This painting comes from nostalgia.
The good kind. The weird kind. The kind that shows up uninvited while you’re doing the dishes.
As a child, I spent a lot of time drawing my town. The streets, the little shops, the everyday chaos. The prizes usually went elsewhere.
So eventually, I solved the problem.
I gave myself a ribbon.
Not gold.
Not silver.
Not bronze.
A Self-Issued Participation Ribbon.
No judges required.
These days, I still paint memories. The happy ones. The complicated ones. The ones that make me laugh years later.
I don’t paint them to win anything.
I paint them because they belong somewhere.
Most of them ended up in LALATOWN.
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