Last week was so wonderful. I had a chance to draw some--or let's say 55+ series of drawings to be displayed along with a string orchestra by AYSO. AYSO (Acacia Yuk! String Orchestra) Bandung is a community based string orchestra in Bandung. They have several programs and one of them is a children concert. This time, they played Vivaldi's Four Season and turned it into a narrative story of Elio and Basil in Four Season. This concert itself had been planned years ago, which th

I want to recollect the memory of my first public bath experience back in Osaka.
 
I always curious with the naked feeling in public. I wonder how is it like having no thread in your body but make it so usual-ubiquitous. [3] Way to go! You meet me here threadless, the bare version of me. Find an important word in this post (when you know, you know) and paste the address bar with: https://www.valentinakris.com/(change this part into the keyword, without the brackets) We went t

Several months ago, I got an offer to illustrate a picture book for children in Timor Leste. I was so excited since there were so many...

Birds were chirping outside and I really wanted to join them by making a little tweet sound. Not bad--in my ear at least, but in fact,...