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Hyung Joo Kim
• Jun 4
Somewhere Between the Two
I used to think creative life looked like the top picture.
A beautiful room.
Fresh flowers.
A warm cup of coffee.
A calm mind.
Then there is the bottom picture.
The one that is much closer to reality.
My coffee is usually getting cold.
The neck massager is hanging around my neck because apparently I am now at the age where I collect heating pads and muscle-relief gadgets.
My clothes rarely match.
One cat has taken over the laptop.
Bonggu is convinced that every important creative session should immediately become a game of fetch.
Somewhere nearby there is an iPad, a phone, another cup of coffee, and probably a to-do list I forgot about.
Outside the window, the day is beautiful.
Inside the studio, I look in the mirror and wonder when my dark circles decided to start migrating toward my knees.
And yet…
This is the version I love most.
Not the perfect one.
The real one.
The noisy one.
The one filled with animals, unfinished projects, mismatched clothes, and ordinary mornings.
This is where LALATOWN is actually built.
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