Jeong Kwan on Creativity

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"Creativity and ego cannot go together. If you free yourself from the comparing and jealous mind, your creativity opens up endlessly. Just as water springs from a fountain, creativity springs from every moment. You must not be your own obstacle. You must not be owned by the environment you are in. You must own the environment, the phenomenal world around you. You must be able to freely move in and out of your mind. This is being free."

Transcribed from Season 3, Episode 1 of Chef's Table

The Others

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Caught in the middle of an epic rain storm, I was quickly winding a spent roll back into the canister when it got stuck half way. In a moment of panic, I ripped the remaining film out of the camera ruining half of the roll and allowing water to get onto the pictures that I had been able to safely get back inside.

The colored spotting is a product of water sitting on the undeveloped film for a few weeks before I was able to have it developed. It seems to have had some kind of reaction with the film. I thought the whole roll was lost but the lab was able to salvage a good number of pictures and I rather like how they turned out. These are some of my favorites.