how to lighten your energy
⛅️wake up with the sun
✨start every day with a washed face + a glass of water
🍯practice healthy eating
🕊meditate for a few minutes before heading out
⛅️spend time outside, daily
✨surround yourself with art that speaks to you
🕊schedule time away from electronics / social media
⛅️be mindful of the things that drain you
✨give yourself a cleansing space
🍯 and like a plant, always grow towards the light
Jaeseung Kim & Kim Jungsiik by Peter Ash Lee
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Backs by Gwen Yip. Acrylic on canvas. 2010-2014.
We all carry things on our backs.
Some shoulder burdens and regrets and
others carry dreams and hopes.
Some scarcely bear them and
others delightedly bring them wherever they go.
What do you carry on your back?
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gwen Yip is an artist who has lived and worked in Shanghai, Amsterdam and London before settling in Brooklyn. She paints the faces of those she knows and the backs of those she doesn’t. Backs is a series of paintings of strangers in London, Hong Kong and New York. The empty space and blurriness of identity in her paintings depict loneliness and isolation in city life.
Images courtesy of Gwen Yip
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