답장 및 감상문
Reply from EJ
Dec 03, 2020, 12:13 PM
안녕 친구들!
Hello Friends!
이상하게도 혹은 자연스럽게 나는 한국어에 먼저 눈이 가.
Weirdly, or perhaps naturally my eyes gravitate towards Korean
한국사람들이 호주에서 오래 산거치고 한국말을 잘한다고 놀랠때마다 아빠와 싸우기 위해 배웠다고 하며 농담을 하곤 해. 하지만 진짜인걸?
Because I’ve lived here for a long time Koreans are always impressed by my good Korean, I tell them I only got better in order to argue with my father, they think I’m joking, but seriously that’s the truth. He would stop listening to me if I’d argue back in english, of course involuntarily. 한국말을 하니 또다른 세계의 문이 열린듯 했어, having access to two cultures, between two worlds (shout out to B.T.W Gianna Hayes)
Where as the exchange of these letters feels as if though everything is suspended in this one space, I guess one would easily say the ‘internet’ but it’s something more, writing letters/email to someone of distance and time allows for one to be more present, to let thoughts and words brew and ferment.
To be honest Konglish is my best language, this feels really comfortable, I feel like I can really express myself this way ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
콩글리쉬를 쓰니 미끄럼틀 내려가듯 술술 막힘 없이 나오는구먼! 영어와 한국어 둘다 서투니 많은 이해 부탁드립니다! Writing in Konglish like this, I feel like I’m on a slide, gliding through without blockage.
But still I feel that I lack in both Korean and english, so please be understanding!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋPerhaps you could consider my grammatical errors as an act of rebellion against the english language ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
이 6명의 편지를 읽으며 그들의 희노애락: 喜怒哀樂: joys and sorrows 을 느낄 수 있었어.
Reading the letters exchanged between the six artists, you get a real glimpse of the joys and sorrows of each individuals.
참 인생은 짧은 시간안에 우리에게 많은 것을 느끼게 해줘, 뭐 당연한 말이지만, 깨닫고 깨달아도 다시 또 깨달았어. 이 깨달음에 끝은 어디로갈까?
You really do get to feel so much in this short time we have, an obvious statement,
But I realise this, then realise and realise it again (Real Eyes Realize Real Lies - Tupac ). I wonder where this road will end up in?
There’s a certain flow and tone of these emails, the back and forth replies to reflections of their days and lives. This type of writing has rubbed onto me and I can’t seem to shake it off.
이글을 어떻게 써야할까 고민하다, 나 또한 나의 하루, 그리고 편지에 답장하는식으로 쓰기로 결심했어
Whilst contemplating on how to go about writing, I decided to write my own reflections and replies to some of the things that were discussed in these letters.
일단 짝꿍 이라는 단어가 매우 마음에 들어, 왠지 이단어가 내는 소리가 재밌고 순수한 우정을 잘표현하는듯 해
First of all I really like the word 짝꿍:JJAK GGOONG: BUDDIES, the sound of this word is funny and pure, depicting a friendship that is ideal.
#rings
I also can’t stand wearing rings, feels like my fingers are choking. I also do wonder how people wear their wedding rings for so long. I ask that the students take off their rings in my on my throwing classes, as they slip off and get lost in tonnes of clay. I wonder how many people lose the rings they put off in these classes haha.
But some people have had their rings on for so long that they can’t seem to take it off, their fingers have grown into it almost.
I like to romanticise a lot of things, and one of them being a monogamous marriage, just feels that I have been sold this image that a married life, kids, a dog, a house, a jeep will bring me a true fulfilment in my life. I really like meeting people living happy non-conventional lives, assures me that theres alternate mode of the game. I think most times we realise what we want by knowing what we don’t want, or visa versa.
As much as I’d like to travel, I like the idea of having mid-century dining set, a purple rug to go with it and a full spice kitchen.
I dream of having my own studio called Happy Hands, I would like to have my of vegetable garden because I hate running out of fresh salad leaves and herbs when I’m cooking. I imagine asking my partner or child to get some more 깻잎: Perilla leaves from the garden.
#pigeontrappedinawindowbox
a bird flew in in my new apartment, it flew out so smoothly, I’m thoroughly impressed
at the old place a pigeon came into the building a couple of times, they would shit everywhere and flap its wings and bash into the windows and walls, missing that one obvious exit. Kinda reminded me of myself, I like to think that I am the bird I just saw, we live and learn, they say some people have to learn it the hard way, perhaps I have finally learned to play smarter not harder?
#sun
‘해가 정수리 위에서 맞좀봐라 내리쏟는느낌’
‘Like the sun is on top of your head saying ‘get a taste of that!’
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What a great way to put it, I imagine that the sun’s poking its tongue out and wearing cool sunnies while saying that. Sydney was so so so hot last week, it was truly deadly.
피할수 없으면 즐기라고 바다를 놀러가봐.
They say if you can’t avoid it, might as well enjoy it, so I dared to goto the beach, but fell asleep in the sun without sunscreen, perhaps I was ‘sun drunk’ I am now severely sun kissed, that the sun has left it’s marks on me. I feel like a walking cyanotype haha, so perhaps I still learn it the hard way. But it’s been heaps cooler this week, almost like it’s treating us for surviving through it all. I kinda love how unexpected Australian weather is,,,
I wonder what it’s like in Korea.
한국은 어때?
은정올림
Love, EJ