Deborah Kim LMFT

Christine Sun Kim, an artist’s perspective on trauma.

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Welcome to @chrisunkim’s “trauma room.” Kim describes her relationship with trauma and how it helped inform her drawing Trauma, LOL (2020). Her survey exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is on view now through September 21.

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin!

In her latest book Ornamentalism, Anne Anlin Cheng proposes a feminist theory for the Asian woman, “the yellow woman.” It’s an amazing study using the discourse of aesthetics, psychoanalysis, historical representation and Orientalism and more, that makes the case for the play of both object and subject in Asiatic femininity.

In an excerpt from an interview about it:

“I’m not interested in judging who is or isn’t beautiful. I’m interested in how beauty is a site of value and affirmation and how that gets inflicted differently when it comes to race and gender.”

Anne Anlin Cheng on the Importance of Discussing Beauty and Aesthetics to Dismantle Systems of Oppression In her latest book, Ornamentalism, multidisciplinary scholar and Princeton professor Anne Anlin Cheng focuses on the urgent, albeit often overlooked

This is a great post for creatives but also for everyone on a way of living.

Some of my favorite parts:
“ I started to adjust to my life in the States after I got a job, which allowed me to work with local community activists and leaders — American Indigenous tribal members. I learned about U.S. history from their perspective, which also helped me to understand my own displacement and diasporic position. So my advice would be to connect with your local community or history and critically examine your own location or dislocation within the country. This will inform what, how and why you want to write.”-Don Mee Choi, poet

“I believed in myself enough to walk away from Kiki, do what actually gave me joy and change my life. I took a big pay cut and disappointed a lot of people, but I did what I felt was the right thing. I didn’t allow myself to be trapped in a success. I kept moving.”- Justin Vivian Bond, performer

“In the past, I’d choose to write. I wouldn’t be with my son often enough, or if my friends were going out, then I’d stay home. If there was a party going on at home, I’d go to the other room to write. It’s very different now. I’ll drop my work to be with a friend. I’ll pick up the phone. Now I think, “I’ll live.” I know there’s less time left. You know that [1848] John Keats sonnet “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” about how he’s afraid he’s going to die before he finishes his writing? Well, it’s different when you’re older. I don’t want to die before I can show my love to my friends and family.” - Maxine Hong Kingston, writer

“I often feel caught between those two modes of being, but it helps to work in both design and architecture, to be able to switch from the small details of the former to the capital “A” of the latter. When I’m stuck in one, I get energy from the other. And sometimes a long walk is really all I need to get through something — that and an openness to ideas, not just from great art and good lectures and books but also from the larger culture, the one that reinforces how we’re all connected, for better or worse. The goal is always to find projects that offer a sense of freedom. Sometimes, you only get that in little bits — as an architect, you can’t always negotiate the terms of a commission — but I like that in each project I do, I can search for my idea of quality or find the context for a new definition of quality. “ - Patricia Urguiola, architect and industrial designer

24 Hours in the Creative Life In our 2022 Culture issue, out April 24, T followed a group of artists — musicians, chefs, designers, writers and others — throughout the course of a day, exploring the intimate moments of their lives that contribute, in ways small and large, to their creative process.