Street Art in VR — Hanbok Girl
Life Extension for Public Art, S2E2
Royyal Dog’s paintings mix cultures, like life does. His multi-story murals of well-known women in traditional Korean dress have attracted attention, especially Rihanna in, “Peace to You.”
Chris Chanyang Shim (심찬양) grew up and studied in Korea, prepared to be a Pastor and dropped out to become the street artist, Royyal Dog, living in Seoul and Los Angeles.
His work starts with photos, which he sees as a gift from God. His role is to use the gift to deliver happiness to more people.
This young mixed-race female is dressed in a Hanbok, a traditional garment worn in ancient Korea. The Hanbok was specifically meant to differentiate a Korean style from Chinese or Japanese style.
The words written in traditional Korean characters over her shoulders:
You are born to be loved
In K-Pop culture, pink flowers blossoms symbolize love .The city of Alameda has welcomed the work and sees it as a reminder about how much we have in common.
Alameda is an unusual place, a small island in San Francico Bay, just across the narrow Oakland estuary from the East Bay, with airports, naval stations and commercial shipping activity everywhere. Somehow, a nice little residential neighborhood of unpretentious homes manages to exist in the middle of it.
The main Street Art of the Week photosphere shows the painting in its neighborhood setting. A second photosphere is set behind it to provide a 360 degree close overview of the Oakland/Alameda section of the Bay.
I find the painting itself striking for a few reasons, but I’m waiting to hear what other people see when we meet on Wednesday, 10am pacific in VRChat to talk about it.
Tom Nickel writes about new media technologies and other topics he has little if any standing to write about. His work has not appeared in The New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, The New Republic, or the New England Journal of Medicine.
Tom holds a Black Belt in Learning and is a founding Board Member of the African VR Campus & Centre and a long-time supporter of the Khmer Magic Music Bus.
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