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You know I love living in big cities 🌃 but I do miss looking at the stars at night. The most spectacular view I ever had was when I did an artist’s residency in the tiniest village in the middle of nowhere and for the first time ever, I got dizzy just looking at the night sky ✨

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

I love that song by Whitney Houston. Speak of a power ballad. I listened to it nonstop while painting this piece.

Painting (made 2023) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

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When you stand at a precipice and are about to jump, do you expect to fly or do you think you‘ll fall? Even though I‘ve always started out falling after expecting being able to fly, I caught myself and learned to use my wings. I wasn‘t always good at flying, but I always managed to stay in the air.
What about you? Are you flying or falling or still figuring it out?

Be strong. Even if you feel weak it. Show up. Even if you want to hide. Follow your dreams. Even when you are followed by nightmares. You have the power. You decide what your life looks like. You decide your worth. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’m not saying everything will change by tomorrow because you stand up for yourself today. Start taking steps towards the person you want to be and don’t look at what anyone else is doing. Just concentrate on yourself and becoming the best version if yourself. If you’re scared out of your mind? You’re on the right path. You got this.

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

When you can’t tell if it’s sweat or rain. Welcome to summer in Seoul.

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

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The shift from "I should do..." to "I get to do..."

When the body finally feels safe enough to want again. A quiet pull. The slow rebuilding of inner conditions that allow curiosity and joy to re-emerge on their own.

“Desire Returns“

Painting (made 2026) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Secret Seoul Sabbatical“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week

I would sleep 8 hours every night and after breakfast, fall back asleep.
I couldn’t move. Felt heavy. Brainfog was my constant companion. I tried to rest. Tried to push through. Ended my days with migraines in dark rooms.

Only jolts of panic would get me out of freeze and into survival mode.
My battery was running on near empty, and my charger broken.
All life felt like it leaked out of me.

Not to sound all bleak, but that was me for the past 18 months.
I tried not to let it show. Not to fall off the face of the earth. I don’t know if I managed.
Also, not sure I want to make myself this vulnerable by sharing this.
But I wouldn’t be writing this and sure as hell wouldn’t have been able to paint this if I didn’t find a way to get better.

“Purging Darkness” feels like an accurate representation not necessarily of what I’ve been going through, but of what it looks like when you've made it to the other side.
Darkness makes the smallest ember shine brighter.

“Purging Darkness“

Painting (made 2025) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Secret Seoul Sabbatical“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week

It’s so easy sometimes, to get lost in what everybody else is doing. To compare where you are to where others are. But I have found what works for everyone else doesn’t necessarily work for me. I can’t look to others for how to get where I want to go because no one has ever walked that path in my shoes. That is scary and freeing at the same time. I don’t have to do things I don’t want to do just because everybody else is doing them. But I also have to come up with my own ideas, my own plan, to get to that elusive mountain top. I have to make my own way.

Painting (made 2023) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

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I can think best at night. When the world around me is asleep and there is nothing disturbing my reverie. Getting lost in your own thoughts. Finding solutions that would make you scoff in daylight. It all seems so light, so possible. Only the soft glow of the stars bearing witness to your innermost musings. 

Painting (made 2023) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

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That one person that walks past you on the street you can’t take your eyes off of. The stranger in the subway making delicious eye contact with you. The people who are main characters in their own life, and not afraid to take up space. Who dance like nobody is watching. Who live life to the fullest and exude charm and esprit. I am talking about you. We are magnificently seductive.

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Fate is a funny thing…

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

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I love to make plans, set goals, and create step-by-step systems to reach them. This is who I am and what makes me me. I am the girl with a plan. I am the girl with 10’000 lists that are color coded. And at the same time, I believe in miracles. I believe that things can happen the way I want them to without “knowing” how they will happen. Without a master plan. Without a roadmap to guide me. Between hustle and surrender. Between working hard and leaning back.

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

In the past women would ingest Belladonna, also called deadly nightshade, in order to make their pupils larger and look more appealing. Never mind that the plant is highly poisonous. Comparing this behavior to today’s beauty industry practices leaves the question…did we learn anything?

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

One of my reels just hit half a million views in a matter of days and with it came new eyes on my art.

🍰 Lovely new followers and people brimming with excitement having found my feed. If you are one of them, welcome. Lovely to have you. Grab some cake!

🪨 But it also means random folk who don‘t usually follow art accounts like mine, showed up. Leaving behind unsolicited opinions, and generally trying to be the impersonation of a pebble in someone else‘s shoe.

☀️ I have always been very lucky to have an overwhelmingly supportive and positive experience on social media. Kind and loving people like you who support and cheer me on.
To keep it that way I have also always been quite liberal with the block button.

✍️ If there are young artists reading this, know that mean comments say more about the person commenting than you. And celebrate every hater and naysayer you get because it means your work is getting seen. You can‘t please everyone, so focus on the people who love your work as much as you and ignore the rest.

✨ Let‘s all stay gloriously unbothered. And thriving.

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of my ”Seoul Searching” art collection

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week.

I had to change school because we moved when I was 8 or 9. And at the new school I didn‘t have the easiest time. Kids played pranks on me, girls pretended to be my friends only to talk badly behind my back. Some of the boys would even wait after school for me to shout taunts and kick me. I was so severely bullied I internalized that something must be wrong with me. 

It took a while. And a very nurturing kind friend to help me be ok with who I am. 

I tend to always see the positive in any given situation and while that time in my life was awful I am proud of who I have become and how it shaped me. 

And this painting might just help you accept yourself for the wonderful person you are. 

“Perfect just the way you are“

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Whispers of Wonder” art collection

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week.

When your childhood promised so much more than you are seeing right now.

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Becoming the highest version of yourself against all odds.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

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I‘ve always been a city girl but right now? Right now I‘m yearning for rustling leaves, a cool breeze, and calm serenity you can only find in nature. Just a week. A week to recharge and just be. Maybe with a book instead of a screen. Listening to birds singing instead of hearing sirens and construction noises. And with a blissfully empty day ahead instead if neverending tasks on my to-do list.

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

💙Payment Plans available 💙

I offer payment plans for three, six, and twelve months.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

💙Payment Plans available 💙

I offer payment plans for three, six, and twelve months.

Are you?

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

💙Payment Plans available 💙

I offer payment plans for three, six, and twelve months.

Be bold. Be brave. The rest comes by default

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Originally the term is coined after a Snake swallowing its own tail. The symbol of infinity.

But endless is not always good. If you feel stuck in a hamster wheel of life only you have the power to break out. 

Break away from the mold. Try something utterly different and use 30 seconds of courage to do it.

“Uroboros“

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Whispers of Wonder” art collection

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Buttercream texture and vibrant pigments make one delicious painting. The richness of it all makes me giddy. I’ve always been scolded by my mum how abundantly I overfilled my cereal bowl which was constantly in danger of overflowing or that I should rather go twice instead of carrying so many books, pens, and nicknacks that I would drop things along my way and while picking them back up, would drop even more.
Looking back, I never was afraid of abundance.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Sometimes at night I stand in front of my floor-length windows and look out into the never-sleeping city of Seoul feeling absolutely content. I think that’s one of the reasons I fell in love with this city. The other day I couldn‘t fall asleep and got up again with an idea to continue this painting. If I showed you a before picture you wouldn‘t believe that it was the same canvas, I transformed it so radically. Just before midnight, I finished. Hence the name.

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

What a wild ride this one turned out to be

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

2020 - part of the “Seoul Searching“ series

50x60x1.5cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

When I was a kid I always dreamed of having a rich history of ancestry, maybe my family used to be royal and I was a princess without even knowing. I thought about the heirlooms that would have been passed down the generations and loved playing with my grandmother‘s jewelry even though it was more on the contemporary side. I loved jewels tones and the pretty stones with all the colors. Now, as an adult, I still adore pretty necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings. I hardly leave the house without them anymore. It is one more way of adding color to my life 💙

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Where in your life do you feel most appreciated and have a surplus of good things? Where in your life do you feel most abundant?

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Do you believe in Soulmates?

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

This painting reminds me of a crystallized cave. At the same time though crystallized can mean sugar-coated and while a lot of things in Seoul look beautiful they are made to perfection, too sweet, too bad for your health. It’s an analogy of beauty and its side effects. It’s pretty, but is it good for you?

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ series

50x60cm

acrylic on canvas

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will be signed at the bottom right

I aspire to live my life like that.

„DANCE LIKE NOBODY IS WATCHING“. It’s a reminder to myself: don’t be too influenced by what other people might think of your actions and your life. Don’t make decisions based on other people’s believes. 

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

Imagine this being a sort of hyper girlfriend that is going to celebrate you no matter what. You can look like the cat just dragged you in, haven’t showered in a week and she will still tell you „Girl, you’re so gorgeous, your hair looks amazing, YOU GLOW GIRL!“. This piece is this cheerleader that’s just smiling and appreciating you for who you are right now.

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

I do get introspective more often than not. I reflect on my own behaviour, how I treat others, how others perceive me, how I want to be perceived. How to set my best food forward but also be true to myself and my inner values. I try to be honest with myself and when I feel greedy, haughty, arrogant even, acknowledge it. Find out where it stems from and wether I want to a be a person like that or not. If my behaviour fits with the idea I have of my own person. If it’s still a reflection of my own ideals.

80x80x1.5cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

When I was small I loved roller coasters with a passion. The acceleration, the loops, the feeling of your stomach dropping. Pure heaven to me. Then, I didn‘t get to go to amusement parks for a couple of years and suddenly, I wasn‘t fearless anymore. The height was too much, the speed too fast, the force pressing me into my seat too strong, and it all felt completely unsafe and overwhelming. I missed the unbridled joy I used to experience and didn‘t understand how it could turn on me and change like that. I felt betrayed. These days I still love going on rollercoasters but I have a very low tolerance now and when I accidentally cross that line it is equal parts exhilaration and fear. I am still trying to reacquaint myself with the excitement I used to feel. little by little. What are you missing from your younger years?

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Never giving up.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Are you ready?

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

The world has so much to offer.

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

The first painting in my “Seoul Searching“ series

65,2x65,2cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please have a look at https://www.juliabadow.com/payment-plans

Don’t overthink.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Have you ever heard that you shouldn’t want something? That you should be happy with what you have and not dream all the time? Do you feel like big goals are for other people, but not for you? Does it feel sometimes like wanting more makes you a bad person? Because I disagree. We want things for a reason. We dream big for a reason. If it wasn’t possible we wouldn’t have the urge to go after it. And if it wasn’t supposed to be in our life, why do we find it attractive in the first place? Go get it ✨ NOW

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

I’m always impatient to get better, stronger, cleverer, know more, do more, achieve more. What is the next step on your ladder? What are you consciously trying to improve right now? I’m taking this moment to look back on what I have achieved already. And maybe instead of being impatient, I can shift it to being excited for what else the future has to offer.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

Hope has kept me going every time.

Painting (made 2021) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

When I was freaking out about putting my self-portrait on an entire series, I had this little voice in my had, saying: „TRUST YOURSELF“. You had this idea for a reason. Go with the flow. For this particular collection of paintings, it was the right thing to do and I am so glad I trusted myself enough to do it. It’s a reminder for whenever you start doubting yourself, „No. Your intuition is right“, trust yourself, there is a reason. Even if it feels a little uncomfortable.

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

That question came up again and again for me. So many things in life don’t get done because you talk yourself out of them or your think you have „rational“ reasons not to go through with them. I don’t want to live my life based on my fears. I want to live my life based on what makes me happy and fulfills me and makes the people around me happy. This piece serves as a reminder to you and to myself to make decisions based on what you want, not on what you fear.

*This piece was damaged during hanging an exhibition. It is not visible to the viewer at all, I was luckily able to repair it. I still decided to lower the price.

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

If you missed out on “Cygnus”, this is the perfect opportunity. I love this piece so much. It has all my favorite colors, is wonderfully dark without any use of black, and feels mysterious and magical to me. And is also an excellent reminder when things look bleak, that this too shall pass. 

I painted this piece simply to see if I could. Inspired by the original “Cygnus“ painting, I recreated the theme in 2024 to capture the magic of hope once more.

Painting (made 2024) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

💙 Payment Plans available 💙

Do you know that scene in Disney‘s Aladdin? Right before the ✨magic carpet ride✨? He asks her a simple question. „Do you trust me?“. And I‘m wondering. As a child, I would have screamed „YES“ and hoped on that flying carpet. Today? „No thank you, random handsome stranger, that doesn‘t look very safe to me. Also, I don‘t like heights.“ 🫠 Just imagine the fun we‘re missing out on by being sensible and „adult“ like that. I want to find my way back to enthusiastic YESes and get rid of skeptic NOes for good. Who is ready for a magic carpet ride in 2023 🙋‍♀️

Painting (made 2022) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right

I re-watched “Howls moving castle” the other day and it might subconsciously have inspired this piece 🔥 Who else uses Ghibli movies like comfort food?

Painting (made 2020) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Seoul Searching“ Series

Signed at the bottom right

part of my “Seoul Searching“ series

50x60cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted.

I knew when I painted this one, that magic just happened. I put the brush to the canvas and it just flowed out of me. I loved every single stage of it. Using a brush in addition to my normal technique gave me the freedom to explore new marks and also took the fear of perfection away. Painting with a tool I’m not entirely used to, made me „FEARLESS“. I didn’t fear perfection anymore, I didn’t fear failure anymore. Whatever your doing, have this piece in your corner to be a reminder to take the plunge, use your 20 seconds of courage, and crush your anxiety. Be fearless.

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

I offer payment plans for 2-6 months. If you would like to take advantage of this, please write me an email at magic@juliabadow.com with the subject „payment plan“ and your desired time span and the title of the piece(s) you‘d like to purchase. Once a piece is paid in full I‘ll ship it to you.

This phrase is so beautiful to me. Full of clarity, simplicity, tenacity.

It’s something we should tell ourselves every single day. „NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED“: a new religion and a way of life. If you decide to live with just one concept in your head it should be this: persistence, against all odds. Sometimes you just need that reminder that other people weathered way worse things than you are going through right now and they pulled through and they are glorious for it. You can survive this. This piece is a visual anchor for you that you can do it, that you are not alone.

60x60x3.8cm, acrylic on canvas, comes to you signed (on the bottom right) and sides painted, ready to hang.

Rather than fighting the current or paddling toward shore, it explores the moment of being all alone out at sea. The quiet realisation that nobody is coming to save you and the choice to sink or swim.

You have done this for so long, been lost at sea so many times, it almost feels like home now. You are no longer drowning, because you have learned to transform, to adapt, to evolve.

Who would have known you could learn to breathe underwater. The freedom, the euphoria, the quiet knowledge that no matter what happens next, you'll be alright.

This painting includes themes of learning to adapt in difficult environments, surviving one transformation after another, being reborn like Venus from the ocean mist, eternally pivoting, constantly at capacity, but never breaking, no matter how high the intensity life throws at you. This artwork speaks about quiet resilience, inner strength, and most of all, hope.

“I'm not drowning. I can breathe underwater.”

Painting (made 2026) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Secret Seoul Sabbatical“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week

A look across a room. A pause, A slight shift in posture. Eye contact that sizzles along your nerves. That makes you feel shy and look down.

How elusive, yet fascinating this language is. The moment before the first words. The liminal space between awareness and connection. How hard it can be to just say hi.

Tension that is fun and nerve-wracking. Your body that betrays you by blushing. Sweaty palms giving you away.

It is much easier to paint these feelings than to actually make eye contact and smile at a stranger.

"Compelling Communication" is part of my “Seoul Searching“ series

65,2x65,2cm, acrylic on canvas, signed at the bottom right, and sides painted.

Ships within a week.

“What would I do if I was a bad girl?”

Painting (made 2026) - acrylic on canvas, 116,8x80,3cm (~45.6x31.5“)

Part of the “Secret Seoul Sabbatical“ Series

Will get signed at the bottom right and shipped within a week