Throughout the grant year I have been keeping up my travel sketchbook. have almost filled my journal with sketches of all the places I have visited. Mostly I have traveled in Korea, but I also included some sketches from my winter trip to Japan. Below you can find a sample of the kind of sketches I've done.
I travel sketch for several reasons:
1. It is entertaining. I am never bored if I have paper and pen.
2.
It is a way to remember. When I sketch something, regardless of the
quality of my sketch, I remember the place better than if I were to take
a hundred selfies in front of it.
3. In our age of photography, I
find that photos often loose meaning for me. Moreover, I am not a good
photographer. My photos are always out of focus, have no objective and
lack creativity. My sketches are different, and I like knowing that
there is only one of them.
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| I started my journal with a self portrait, done in September at my desk in school. |
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| This is an old fortress in my city, Cheongju. |
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| This is Seongri-san, about one hour from my city. My host family took me here in October. |
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| Reeds, Suncheon Bay. November 2016 |
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| I love going to coffee shops in Korea, and this one is walking distance from my house. |
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| Visiting my friend, Elsa, in Japan. December-January |
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| Mount Fuji was visible from the mountain we climbed to see the first sunrise of the year. January 1st, 2017 |
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| The architecture museum in Tokyo |
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| Mixing old with new, in Seoul. Feb. 2017 |
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| A visit to Gyeongbukgung (palace) in Seoul, with my mom. March 2017 |
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| Fulbright conference in Jeju, April 2017 |
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| Jeju |
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| The Bamboo forest in Damyang, May 2017 |
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| Beoseong Green Tea Festival, May 2017 |
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| Green tea fields, Boseong, May 2017 |
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