Every year on our birth days we’ll try to make a trip overseas – Singapore is about 50km from east to west so we can’t do any local travelling. Travelling is vital to us for the growth of our minds and souls, and it feels exceptionally meaningful to be in a different frame of mind provoked by an entirely different space.
Today is my partner’s birthday, and we are at Gwangalli beach, Busan. My partner tends to leave the travel planning and decisions to me, so I thought being near a water body would be good for us.
She wore a zero-waste dress she had sewn and painted herself with fabric markers, so I took a few portraits of her around the beach:
Busan happened to launch a panda “character zone” (I don’t actually know what this means) at the beach. The pandas are real pandas gifted by china, and the koreans are very attached to the them. Uncannily the pandas’ birthdays also happen to fall in july:
So we were unexpectedly treated to a drone light show featuring the pandas last night, and a “happy birthday” message was displayed:
I have written so many words for my partner, so it feels almost redundant to repeat them. But in love and life what existed in a previous moment should not be taken for granted that they will exist now, much less tomorrow.
I would like to give my thanks for her being born 44 years ago on this day, she is my muse, my inspiration, my partner, my world. Because of her I have learnt to be more of my self, and I got to experience a quality of love I had thought was impossible. Without her I wouldn’t be the person I am now, and I wouldn’t have ever known I was someone who can be loved to such a depth.
I love witnessing her existence and expression, her relentless quest to break her creative boundaries, that her appetite for creativity is indefatigable. She is a person that never requires discipline, because such is her zest and enthusiasm for making things. I may never be like her, but at least I know such an existence is possible, and that serves as an inspiration for me endlessly.
I feel like words can only convey superficially how I think and feel about her, so I hope the pictures can better express how much I adore her.