Tough Luck
Watercolor, india ink, trace of graphite on paper , 30'' x 22'', 2026
What first feels ridiculous slowly becomes a portrait of a life shaped by bad luck. Built from clustered breasts, a glaring eye, crowded teeth, and sharp linear marks, the head looks both comic and unstable, as if desire and misfortune have fused into one strange body. The image carries a sense of comic fatalism: the feeling that disappointment is so constant it can only be met with laughter, exaggeration, or crude fantasy. Within that logic, absurd desire appears less as pleasure than as a brief, awkward escape from failure. Hyunjun’s use of the bodily grotesque turns the figure into something swollen, exposed, and knowingly ridiculous. Rather than hiding humiliation, the work leans into it, showing how humor can become a way to live with damage, desire, and defeat. 
If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all—besides one holy moment of getting smothered by tits in Las Vegas.
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What first feels ridiculous slowly becomes a portrait of a life shaped by bad luck.

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Tough Luck
Watercolor, india ink, trace of graphite on paper,
30'' x 22'', 2026
From Rexhibit
What first feels ridiculous slowly becomes a portrait of a life shaped by bad luck. Built from clustered breasts, a glaring eye, crowded teeth, and sharp linear marks, the head looks both comic and unstable, as if desire and misfortune have fused into one strange body. The image carries a sense of comic fatalism: the feeling that disappointment is so constant it can only be met with laughter, exaggeration, or crude fantasy. Within that logic, absurd desire appears less as pleasure than as a brief, awkward escape from failure. Hyunjun’s use of the bodily grotesque turns the figure into something swollen, exposed, and knowingly ridiculous. Rather than hiding humiliation, the work leans into it, showing how humor can become a way to live with damage, desire, and defeat. 
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If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all—besides one holy moment of getting smothered by tits in Las Vegas.
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