Gallery Opening at the Hwaseong Fortress

 On Wednesday, I went to a gallery opening at the Hwaseong Fortress.  I was also participating in it.  Here is chilbo and maedeup pieces made by Young-Soo.

                                           This was made by my friend, the bodyguard.

                                        These chilbo pieces were by Nan-Young, my chilbo teacher.

                                                                More by the bodyguard.

                                Metal guy was also there in person and in a piece of his copper art.

                                       My chilbo jewelry boxes were included in the gallery too.

                                               These pieces were made by my hanji teacher.

 She does amazing paintings on cloth and she really wanted me to take her picture so I did.  She is a sweetie and always calls out to me when she sees me around town.

                                                            There was also a lot of food.

          And a pig's head.  Some of the head was cut up into easy to eat pieces.  I was totally grossed out.

                                 There was also a group of Korean kids that played a few songs.

  

                                                Then bodyguard put money in the pig...

                                           and others followed suit.  The kids loved it.

  Me, not so much.  I had never seen a pig head at a gallery opening and I have been to many now.  All they told me was that it was good whatever that means.

 There was a presentation where several people talked and then each of us had our names read and we stepped forward and bowed.  Then the eating began.

              Then the drinking began.  I stayed with Coke even though bodyguard wanted me to drink soju.

Bodyguard drank A LOT of soju.  I'm not sure how he got home.  I was the first to leave and metal guy gave me a ride home.

I also took some video: