2park

Hello, World!

My name is 2Park and I am ethnically Korean, born and raised in China and attended Korean school. My hometown is situated at the border of Russia, China, and North Korea, while my second hometown is Sydney, where I studied, worked, and lived for 12 years. However, I have recently moved to Paris to start a new challenge, my new (artistic) European life :)

I am a big fan of French literature, particularly Proust, Balzac, Flaubert etc. Although I have yet to finish In Search of Lost Time, I am almost halfway through Balzac's La Comedie Humaine and intend to complete the entire project. I also admire French intellectuals such as Alian Badiou, Bernard Stiegler, Lacan etc, I hope to improve my French to read their works in their original language someday.

I was a High school teacher. (Physical Education, Visual Art and Special Education, students with autism and intellectual disabilities) My current goal is to become an artist who creates art for life.

I am working on a series of documentaries called "Penno 7UP," inspired by Michael Aped's famous British 7up series, which showcases the lives of young Australias and other people of the same age around the world.

'Unsent Love Letters' It's a project where I collect people's unexpressed emotions, feelings and love onto letter forms, I will also collect real 'unsent love letters' too. I've done this in Hungary, Australia, Korea, Japan and China and continue in other countries too.

I also have a 100,000 3-point-made challenge and a 1000 postcard challenge.

"Live Artistically" is one of my mottos!

I do illustrations, comics, and portrait drawings for people on the street. I make postcards and stickers to sell as well.

I firmly believe that the world should strive to create a place where education, food, shelter, and medical care are accessible to everyone. No one should die of hunger because they cannot afford to eat, nor should we have the means to provide homes for everyone but choose not to do so. I understand that this is a complex and seemingly impossible goal, but we should strive to achieve it regardless. So basically I am a communist.

As a Chinese-Korean-Australian, I consider myself an internationalist. If we do not abandon the old mode of the nation-state and work together with people from all over the world to solve our current issues, we are doomed. Although this may seem impossible to achieve, it may be the only way out.

I am constantly thinking about how to live, what our civilization should look like, and what constitutes a good life. And I often ponder death, not in the Freudian sense of the death drive, but in the realisation that we will one day cease to exist in this universe and the entire human race. This realisation is both exciting and uncanny because it makes me aware that I am alive!