"Hello Yimin how are you ?"
*grabs my hand*
"You know what I like"
I love him so much 🥹
It really touched me during the meet and greet when he answered my question about his creation process and whether creating feels more therapeutic or painful, or maybe something in between, and how he deals with that.
I'll always remember that moment because it felt so sincere and beautiful. He talked about how creating can feel therapeutic and cathartic, like slipping into a kind of automatic writing where the words just come out, as if they already belong to the line, to the couplet, like they were always meant to be there.
And sharing your art can bring painful emotions when people connect with it and their reactions reveal that they recognize something in it, sometimes shared experiences, sometimes shared trauma, that kind of connection can be beautiful, but it can also hurt.
I also made a bookmark and gave it to him, the way he held my hand, looked me in the eyes, and said “this is beautiful” meant so much to me.
He asked if i would be in Hong Kong..(sadly i won’t be able to go, but i told him some of my friends will be there and they can finally meet him.) he smiled and said, “yes, tell them i’ll be there.”
He is the best person in the world.
