Lae178 in Ymere Werkt

As you know, I won a scholarship a few months ago.

The scholarship was funded by my urban district, Amsterdam West, and the housing corporation Ymere. Ymere has a magazine for their ..relations? (Excuse me, I do not know the proper English term here..) In this magazine, Ymere Werkt (Ymere Working), is a column consisting of an image and an accompanying description. The subject for the latest issue was this particular competition, so I was asked to contribute.

So here it is!

For those who speak Dutch, or those who took the insane effort to transcribe all this text and google translate it:

the information given is, unfortunately, faulty. Even though I like always being thought to be 17 years old (hey, my nickname is even Seventeen, so I identify with being 17) , I am not 17 anymore.
Also, I did not make a photographic collection (bestaat 'vierluik' in het Engels?) about people living in North Korea. I did make figurative paintings about the daily life in South Korea.

But anyways, it's the first time for me that an illustration by me was published in a magazine, so yay! (well, okay, W.I.T.C.H. once put a drawing I made in their mailbox section when I was like 11, but let's not mention that.) What d'you think? :)
I tried to keep in line with how that column is usually done. While my drawing is very very different from the photographic, photoshopped compilations Buro Met usually makes, I tried to keep the collage structure and use at least one building. (the building you see is actually quite typical and recognisable for the Westerpark, the park where the events took place and that's 5 minutes from my house!)

Fun facts:

• I first wanted to also post my sketches, but.. there's only a few and those are in blue pencil, so you wouldn't even see much.
• I actually own that exact outfit and yes, I do look cute like that.
• The people I drew in blue are the other kids who won something and I drew Anna (the photography girl) and Said (the drumming boy) in the clothes they wore at the awards.

Well, if you read the whole text, I applaud you and ask you to leave me a comment; you've already spent so much time on this post so you might as well spent another minute. ;)