you burn for everyone but yourself; die out a few hours later
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Read Morewe are young girls and the sun is holy to us / the moon burns. we are saints, / breathing clay and exhaling dough
Read MoreThey were simply remnants of my past and / just like the photograph in my hands, / they were blurred, faded, and damaged, / yet alive— / inside the chambers of my mind.
Read More“There's a lot of structure in KPOP, in the industry, and we want [our music] to show that we can just have raw energy, raw sound, and do what we can as us being from Korean-Canadian backgrounds.”
Read More“Sometimes it feels good to sort of scare yourself with how vulnerable you choose to be with your music. It can take the power away from whatever is troubling you.”
Read More“I honestly just want my parents to be able to listen to my songs and understand them. Although I am Chinese American, I was born and raised in the states. Doing music in Chinese helps me connect these two identities that I struggle with.”
Read Morethe never ending catch-22 of “what if” / stars always made to unmake themselves / at least once
Read More“I always wanted to write upbeat music but have deep, meaningful topics behind it. I think that’s just become my sound. I can’t produce anything that sounds sad, that’s just not me.”
Read More“My mind is like a crazy library of pictures, so I see all of these pictures in my mind, and I string them together… I feel like my project is like a book. Each song is a story and that’s why it’s important the way I lined them up.”
Read More“sometimes i wish forgetting was not part of being human.”
Read More“You see, when I close my eyes and picture a queer woman, she is almost always white, and when I picture an Asian girl, she almost never loves like me. This feeling of in-betweenness feels groundless, like I will lose my breath at any second.”
Read More“I could go make music on my own, right? I can go play whatever and record everything, but it's not going to be The Greeting Committee, it's going to be me. Our life experiences and how we approach things makes our music, for better or worse, The Greeting Committee.”
Read More"I didn't know what I wanted to do for the longest time. It took a lot of thought and a lot of pushing back this idea of how photographers don't get paid that much, or how it's a difficult industry to pursue. It was when I started to just do what I wanted, that's when I started hunkering down on my photography."
Read More“My inspiration behind the track, "The Room" first came from the imagery of buildings that have been abandoned and years later plants have grown through and around it. The plants turned the untouched structure into a natural living building.”
Read More“I just want people to see my journey - I feel like that is art in itself - seeing someone grow creatively.”
Read More“I feel so disconnected not only from my culture identity, but at times, I feel like I'm disconnected from my queer identity, too. I get inspiration from not having that connection.”
Read MoreAmidst the falsehood of cast and crew’s safety, global marketing and distribution rights—audiences are left with love stories. The practical phenomena of East-Asian fan service allows youth to recognize a skyline, across the world, or a Metro-service their aunts fawned over. These credited, Sixth-Gen films pass down the 21st century as highly prolific, somehow tumultuous, but for some—worth watching. Whether a nurturing actress or a sterile claim, the filmic image can be re-adapted, then reconciled with delight. The bittersweet certainty of movies is, after all, something new to behold.
Read More“That's the central theme of the project that I've been working on: exploring themes of youth about regrets, anger, forgiveness to yourself, and moving forward from this abyss of time, because it feels like I lost that time.”
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