Flowers from the Field • 들꽃
Book: I’ll Tell You When I’m Home by Hala Alyan
Flowers: 백일홍, crepe myrtle trees
Song: 악단광칠 — 영정거리
Television Show: 응답하라 1988, Reply 1988
Conversation / Podcast: Thresholds — Hari Kondabolu with Mira Jacob
Tea Shop: 소리차, Soricha Tea & Theater
Restaurant: SUNY Sushi in K-Market
Conversation #1: James Baldwin on needing to leave the U.S.
Conversation #2: Trevor Noah with his Gogo in Soweto, South Africa
This is the art that inspired me during the sixth month of the year.
What art did you read, watch, listen to, and experience this month? What inspired you? What broke you? What moved you? What encouraged you? What questions did you ask? What answers did you find? What art did you make? What realizations did you have? What did you discover? Share your own field collections with me in the comments.
With love,
Jieun
Words of Encouragement • 응원
“It always looks wrong at first.”
—anonymous, a proverb for all artists
“I left this country for one reason only, one reason. I didn’t care where I went... I ended up on the streets of Paris with $40 in my pocket on the theory that nothing worse could happen to me there than what had already happened to me here. You talk about making it as a writer by yourself, you had to be able then to turn off all the antenna with which you live because once you turn your back on this society, you may die. You may die. And it’s very hard to sit at a typewriter and concentrate on that if you’re afraid of the world around you. The years I lived in Paris did one thing for me, they released me from that particular social terror which was not the paranoia of my own mind, but a real social danger visible in the face of every cop, every boss, everybody... I don’t know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only conclude what they feel from the state of their institutions... You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me exists in America which I have never seen.”
—James Baldwin
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