Gretta at Simmons Hardware store Jeonpo-dong, Busan.
I approached the wool-hat girl and asked her for a photo so I could paint her.
- Hi, excuse me, could I take a picture of you?
- Hahahaha
She laughed at me. I thought it was because of my thick spanish accent, but later, she told me it was because she always laugh when she´s nervous.
I showed her my Instagram so she could see that I´m an artist and not someone who´s trying to flirt clumsily.
She pointed a work that I painted with a very strong light. Her mother, whom is from Korea, wanted to name her -Myeong-suk- that means pure light, but her dad, a Danish man living in London, didn´t like the idea. Finally she was named Grette.
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