I had to take a moment to realize that Kim Jung Gi is not making work for us to look to. I think the biggest part of hurt in this knowing as I have been carving and unable to contribute anything to Inktober and be removed from the illustration community I learned this from a video from that young and incredibly talented @pwnisher.
Genius captured in a moment.
In times I had no vision within myself I looked to peers and being that we are the same age, I felt that he’d accomplished so much more that I had but it made me happy not envy him. I found myself looking at and putting myself into his openness of sharing as much as I regard Miyazaki.
Years back when I was on the radio with Rob Satiacom asked about John T. Williams and that tragedy. Rob asked me about that passing when he asked about the art he wasn’t able to share with the world, in my heart words came out of my mouth as if my grandma B was inside me to answer
the art he made was a relationship for him and it was one few will understand. It is a healing for him as much as it is me in my experience.
In hindsight had I not gone to Prague to by chance meet a 3d artist who wanted to learn to sculpt beyond a screen, I would not have reconnected with my need for illustration. Ten years passed and that artist is making clay work and we can share the grief the same. Where we have no words there is music. In my favorite work of him an illustration of a Fox holding a newborn child wearing glasses.
It moved me to recall to tears sitting at my back porch a rare instance of a raccoon playing with a small pond in front of the nettles. In time I was able to see a relationship that would seem totally foreign and maybe it was. There were days I would see the jay fly into the nettles maybe looking to see if they were there.
Two beings in Western world known as aggressive but in the natural world only themselves.
into the fold you are in my heart
Hello, World!