YMO "Behind the Mask"

behind the mask

This is me! I made this mask at El Museo del Barrio on Fifth Avenue, during Museum Mile. Museum Mile is an event by Museums between E80th st and 103rd st on Fifth Avenue. Admission was free 6-9pm. I love this festival because it reminds me of street festival in Japan! There's a chalk drawing on the street, jugglers, magicians, street musicians, etc. Of course this is so much better. El Museo del Barrio had an mask-making event. They photographed me and printed it out on card stock. Then I painted and decorated it with glitter! While making it, I though of YMO's "Behind the Mask" a song to which I used to run before class starts at elementary school. My mask got a lot of nice words later on the street later. It made me feel a bit better after all things happened lately.

One of teachers at my school must have been a big fan of YMO. He would not know how many kids were affected by this song. I was one of them for sure.

Pen Magazine#2

This is a page on Ninth Street Espresso in NYC that I photographed for Pen magazine. It took me so much time to do this job because of lack of experience but I am so happy to see the result here.

By the way, I like people at Ninth Street Espresso for their enthusiasm on coffee. They can talk about coffee easily for an hour straight. It's always amazes me to know there is an expert in any aspects of our life. A barista said to me brewing a cup coffee is an art as a musician plays music. Now, I want my photograph as bitter and rich as goos espresso.