Cat Aurora Man... Me-OW!

[from one of my blogs, http://invisiblevisiblefriend.wordpress.com/]

This is going to be a bit creepy. 

Warning said, this is the succinct story, truncated to the mere facts. Walking back from school to the Central Line, I saw this quaint, but friendly middle aged man who smiled back (Who ever does that in Korea? Unless they themselves are from the US) when our eyes met. How often during the winter does one see a man wearing sleeveless and holding a kitten, underneath his wings ? Seriously, he might as well as have had an aura or a halo of cats moving around on the top of his head.

Taking that thought further into account, I played a bit with the aura/halo thing when I drew him based off memories, just like all the other drawings from the category of "Drawings of Characters." For the halo/aura, since it was a figment of my own silly imaginations, I recalled upon some of the rich knowledge I had started to accumulate by working at the National Museum of Korea.

Hot Man and the Cabbage...oui, un chou

[from one of my blogs, http://invisiblevisiblefriend.wordpress.com/]

On the contrary to the Radish Spirt-Man (무우 도사) from the Central Line, here is a man of hotness... My beloved friend Yumi was telling me about his hot presence that she observed last year sometime. Vaguely imagined, with references to the David stature by Michelangelo. ;)

The Radish Spirit-Man (무우 도사 아저씨)

[from one of my blogs, http://invisiblevisiblefriend.wordpress.com/]

As a kid growing up in Seoul, there was a locally aired animation series that told traditional local stories  through these speaking vegetable, Sprit-Man ("Do Sa" 도사). These narrative episodes series were odd and quirky as I recalled them, and my old memories were right-- it is pretty weird.



Indeed, it was more than odd that a vegetable like a Radish would be chosen as a speaking spirit "thing" person--  so yet again, here is another image of the pair of speaking rhythmic duo, the Beets. (Get it?) Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha.


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On a windy evening (November 2011?), I was merely heading off for another night of second semester  graduate studies. Quickly however, I was startled to see him-- such an oddly hair styled man-- get off on the Central Line station for  Kyung Hee University. Indeed, he struck me to be a true modern day Radish Guru,  who was carrying a bunch of cultivated radishes and beets in his plastic shopping bag. How's that for a metaphysical dramatic play of words?