For many many months, I didn’t open my plant presser. Look at all these leaves and flowers which came out from there! Some plants I collect because I like their forms, and some I collect them to remember the moment. I can’t recall where and when I collected half of these plants, but others bring back good memories. My herbier is also my diary.

The view out my balcony <3

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A game Mattie and I like to play is pétanque, a French game which you play with heavy metallic balls or boules. Many might call this game boring or something of old people, but trust me, they are totally wrong ; )

During our summer holiday, we came across a pétanque tournament organized by the small town where we were at. So we signed up, paid two euros each, and played with the locals. We got to play two games and we lost both games by 13-0 (we made no points!). Obviously, we are not very good, but in all honesty, we are not that bad either! These locals were like pros! Although we got roasted, we had such a good time (and also got inspired to play like the locals) that we decided to invest and get our own boules.

We already had some cheap boules which we picked up at various flea markets, but we wanted to find pro boules with the right measurement and weight that matched us. After some searching, we got lucky and found second-hand boules that fit us perfectly!

Since our first wedding anniversary is coming up very soon, we decided that these will be our first wedding anniversary present to ourselves : )

A few months ago, we picked up a new book <La boule de pétanque> from Éditions B42. First, they make many gorgeous books, so check them out. This book is also excellent with beautiful pictures and texts about the history of pétanque boules. It was co-edited with Collections Typologie. This book came to life after a successful kickstarter campaign last year, and this is the very first issue of a bigger collection about everyday objects. Looking at their instagram account, the next issue is about wine corks.

Yes, I was reading it while doing the laundry today : )

If you haven’t tried playing pétanque yet, go play it before the summer ends!

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<La boule de pétanque>
Co-published by B42 and Collections Typologie
isbn 978-2-917855-86-7

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Everyone’s on holiday and Paris is empty these days. Soon, everyone will return, but for now, I love Paris like this.

With Obisk and Gsulf.

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BIG NEWS –

Recently, I made a new personal short film, titled 결, and it got premiered on NOWNESS on Aug 9!

I’m so grateful it premiered on such an amazing platform and viewed by so many people (AKA dream come true). This is something I never even imagined when I was setting up scenes in my tiny living room, shooting in the middle of the night because I couldn’t block out lights during the day, and going through dumpsters for props! Well, I’ll share behind the scenes sometime in the future : )

But all this was not possible without the help of Kitty Turley (executive producer at Strange Beast) and Strange Beast (a production company in London who represents my director work in the UK), who gave me valuable feedback when I shared the rough edit with her and furthermore hooked me up with Father (amazingly talented music & sound duo in London / check out the COS commercial they sound designed and was featured in a few years ago, this is how I became a fan) who created a beautifully strange sound and music for the film. But above all, I’m grateful for her enthusiasm when I first showed her the rough edit. She was the first to see it, because I’m never confident about whatever I’m making, I unintentionally or intentionally hid the film while working on it. And her enthusiasm sort of gave me a karate chop on my head and made me realize that maybe I do have a bit of talent in filmmaking. Well, this is another topic about my self-confidence or a lack of it ; ) Finally, the premiere on NOWNESS became a reality thanks to Sam Gray (head of communications at Strange Beast) who presented the film to them and discussed all the details with them. Thank you thank you thank you!

Here are some words about the film on NOWNESS –

If you watched it already, cool! If not, head over to NOWNESS to watch 결! And let me know what you think about it : )

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www.nowness.com/story/gyeol

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Mattie and I are back from our a few days short of a month summer holiday. I arrived home with lots of energy, thinking of all the projects I would like to do. But instead, I’m struggling to shake off the holiday mood and get to work. This is usually the case after any trips because I work for myself at my cozy home. So today, I spent all day going through the holiday photos.

Every summer for the last seven or eight years except last summer, Mattie and I travel on our tandem bike and wild camp in nature (trip of 2014, 2015). We decided to return to the Dordogne region. We have biked here a few times already, and we also got married here last summer. Yes, if you still didn’t get it, it is our favorite region ; )

For seven days – we first biked northeast along Dordogne river, then we climbed a small mountain (but big enough for us on a tandem!) westward to meet the Vézère river which we had planned to follow, but we took a detour following the cutest Coly river which we found only by lucky chance till we met the Vézère again a day later, which led us to another bigger mountain we had to climb up to get to a festival in the middle of nowhere, then the following day, we biked to the place where we had our wedding last summer, had lunch under a tree, felt loved and fuzzy inside, and that was the end of our tandem trip.


Unknowingly we chose the hottest week of the summer for our bike trip.


Our tandem fully loaded – a front bag, two back bags, two sleeping bags and a tent, a triangle tool bag, a black camera bag, a small bag for stuff I collect on the way (attached behind the front saddle), three water bottles, swimming suits drying in the back, a fan we made on our first day in between sleeping bags. Oh and a fishing rod between two pedals : )


The Dordogne river


Magical Coly river where we stopped for breakfast.


The bestest walnut tart from the boulangerie in Condat-sur-Vézère. We ate it so fast that I only took a photo of the last bite before it happily went inside my tummy.


After climbing for hours, we finally got to the top. Here we also found a plum tree with sweetest plums. We each at two and kept the pits.


I found things like stones and fruits and kept them in this blue bag attached behind Mattie’s saddle. Sometimes, it carried some mint.


Our usual lunch


This is where we got married last summer : )

After the tandem trip, we took the train to Bordeaux, surfed and ate fougasse in Montalivet, ate oysters and flew on a helicopter in Oléron island, back in Bordeaux for a day, then finally back home in Paris. I said to Mattie – we need a holiday to recover from our holiday.

Hope you are having a great summer too <3

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Friends, painting, fun days in Angers. Thanks Alexis for organizing : )


Gsulf


Djob


Suaa


コンタン


Smoh


Gsu


Mattie and I, once again, made a mistake with the train ticket and had to buy another return tickets. It seems like an ongoing theme this year, but thanks to the mistake, we had an afternoon by the river ; )

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In the suburb of Paris, inside a big warehouse-turned-atelier shared by many artists, there’s a small space Blaise Parmentier and Théo Robine-Langlois built above their shared workspace and under the angled roof to invite artists and organize exhibitions. Space is named appropriately A-frame as you can see in the photos.

It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to show in this uniquely shaped space. Then I realized the form of the drapes I’ve sketched during La Patronne residency early this year would fit nicely. Hence I decided to make the first drape of the eight I’ve sketched. Then Théo came up with the title of the exhibition <1 of 8>.

During the vernissage (June 22, 2018), we let people wear the drape. It was interesting to see how everyone moved so differently in it from one another. And now I can’t wait to make all eight drapes and see them worn by people, although this will take some time.

Big big thanks to all of you who came out, traveled across town in the midst of a train strike, to see my work. Sincere thank you thank you thank you! And of course a big thanks to Théo and Blaise : )

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1 of 8
A-Frame
11, avenue Victor Hugo
F–93120 La Courneuve 
June 22 2018 – TBD
by appointment

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Sun sun sun in Marseille. Always.

After the residency in La Patronne early this year, I spent a few days in Marseille before returning to Paris.

Eating navettes sort of became a must whenever I go to Marseille. I haven’t seen them anywhere else but Marseille, and they are so yum! These are from Four des Navettes who have been baking navettes since 1781!

On the return day to Paris, while eating french fries waiting for the train, I realized I forgot my laptop at my friend’s house. The train was leaving in a few minutes and my friend was returning home only in the evening. So Mattie and I had to miss our train and were forced to stay one more day in Marseille. Not knowing how to spend a whole extra unexpected day in Marseille, we walked to the seaside, laid down, got comfortable and watched seagulls.

It was our bonus day <3

We had another adventurous moment the morning after at the train station. We left our luggages at the train station when we missed our train, but when we got to the locker room in the morning, we learned that its opening hour was after our train time (panic). We were lucky to find someone to beg and able to access our locker just in time for the train, but people, always check the opening hours before you lock your stuff away! Lessons learned ; )

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Since I’m on a marathon of posting old news (string of my last posts all actually occurred more than a year ago), why not another old story.

Beginning this year, Mattie and I had to go to Brussels to visit the French embassy for my visa related appointment (well, that is another adventure story!). After this boring but very important appointment, we visited Alice Gallery. I followed this gallery for some time now as some of my favorite artists have exhibited there (Atelier Pica Pica, Steve Powers, Todd James, Erosie). Also during this time, I knew Paul Wakers was exhibiting. Even though the gallery was closed on the day we were in town, Alice opened the gallery for us.

Paul Wackers is a painter from NY. I don’t know where or when I first encountered his paintings, but I instantly fell in love with his shelf-like composition – full of plants, vases, weird sculptures. Chaos contained between straight lines.

I felt fortunate to see the paintings up closed. There are so many interesting textures, layers, thickness, mediums which I missed from only looking at pictures of his paintings.

You can look at more of his works on his website or instagram. And follow Alice from Alice Gallery here.

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Paul Wakers
<Parts of everything that are pieces of everything are all around us>
Alice Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
November 16, 2017 – January 26, 2018

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Sometime in May 2017, when Mattie and I visited friends in Angers, France.


me


Gsulf


Cor21


Quentin


Hyota


Soir


Gsulf

We went picnic’ing, we swam at a lake, I met a giant dog, it was a good time : )


Sadly the picture doesn’t show the real size of this dog, it was huge!

We are planning to go to Angers end of this month, can’t wait : )

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