An ongoing correspondence on health, art-making, career longevity with Kim Sulju.

In June 2023, the artist Kim Sulju and I discussed how to make our art careers work, amidst momentous shifts in our personal lives, our families, our mental and physical health. We are multi-taskers: between us, we write, design, teach, edit, apply for artist residencies, funding, projects and try our best to stay on top of the tasks we have on our hands – nothing spectacular or extraordinary as an artist. Until Sulju fell very, very ill.

The problem, as we understood, is that we think we are capable of doing many things if we work our hardest. So afraid we are of a missing out in the receding sea of artist opportunities.

This correspondence is born out of the question: How do we survive as an artist amidst amidst personal upheavals? In every run, every stroll, every shower of fluorescent light washing over me in the malls and supermarket where I let myself get lost in, i wonder how do we keep the romance, the dream of making?

30 June 2023: Silent game

29 June 2023: Like an ember in your name – Jeff Buckley

26 June 2023: It stopped.

18 June 2023：Running

现在晚上不跑步，搬去英国时，旁晚也不能能跑了。

13 June 2023：Point A to B, surely there must be one or two ways to feel young again

12 June 2023：Before running: where may shoes park or leap from, maybe we might land on a beautiful land of sky

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