2.17.2010

Heritage







My first love is watercolor, it's the first media that I became proficient at to express the stuff going on in my head in a coherent way. Whenever I see photographs that have a watercolor quality I am mesmerized, I actually start seeing brush strokes and color drips. Okay, I know that sounds crazy.

This Korean fashion spread was photographed by Kim Kyung Soo. It's so beautiful. I also feel a connection to this as a Korean, growing up wearing these traditional Han Bok for Korean holidays. I remember being stared at as a girl in an all caucausian neighborhood. They had never seen anything like it. A few years later, the neighborhood started changing and you started seeing women wearing saris, men in turbans, men practicing tai chi, cheongsam at the market, then I stopped getting stared at.

via automatism via alisabloh

8 comments:

  1. I love the color mixes...pale green and gray is my favorite in the first photo. It's all lovely.

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  2. these pictures are stunning - i agree with the others, the colour palette is beautiful. thanks for sharing!

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  3. Wow. Those are some gorgeous photos. Lovely.

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  4. These don't look like photograph but painting... Gorgeous color palette!

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  5. oh so pretty, Korean & um, hello- kitties!!! couldn't be more perfect, you should post your wedding han bok! I am back in blogland!
    xVKO

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  6. They were staring because you're beautiful! :)

    Not sure of you follow the Olympics but Kim Yu-Na from Korea is going to take the gold in woman's figure skating. She's perfectly graceful!

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