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Dec 8, 2021 14 tweets 9 min read Read on X
So Namjoon’s IG posts today reminded me to rebuild a thread off my old acct from after he shared a first look @ Rkive in the new Yongsan building. (Because Yun Hyong-Keun)
[Rebuild]
First, some things don’t change🥺Joon’s trio of framed desk pictures have been the same for yrs +
They are, from L to R:

1) a picture of ARMY from 5th Muster in Busan
2) *THE* @BTS_twt family photo
3) Yoshitomo Nara’s Poindexter, 2010, charity postcard print +
1) Picture of ARMY

Joon has explained that he keeps ARMY on his desk, next to him. In his January 2021 VLive he said if he thinks we will all meet again one day, everything becomes fine, and he always looks at this picture…+
This is the photo (BTS are on stage, ARMY are on both sides of them, a surrounding them) +
2) *THE* BTS Family Photo

Namjoon’s shown & explained this pic a lot over the yrs (including during this year’s Festa). BTS took it the day they filmed the 3rd Muster VCR, after doing their Chuseok VLive.

In 2018, he named it as a “cherished item” in the 오, 늘 exhibition book+
In April 2019, during promo for MoTS:P, Namjoon gave framed copies of the pic as part of his gift bag to ARMYs who attended the MCountdown pre-recording on Apr 16/17 (they were filmed rly late at night & took a long time so members used to take turns giving goodie bags to ARMYs)+
The next day was Tae’s turn to gift goodie bags, and he gifted ARMYs ahi went to the pre-recording a collection of photos he’d taken himself…and also gifted *that* BTS family pic too🥺 (unframed) +
Namjoon was asked about the framed pic during his April 23, 2019 MoTS:P Album Behind VLive.
He said he didn’t know why he liked it so much, but that it was so cute - that they were all so cute…🥺🥺😭
And he keeps it, now next to ARMY, on his desk still+
3) Is a print of Yoshitomo Nara’s 2010 “Poindexter”. The print was done in 2011 as part of a charity postcard set after the 3.11 earthquake. In January 2019, when Joon twt’d a studio photo showing the print on his desk, the artist himself QT’d and explained it +
I think the original (?) was up for auction in June 2021, it was estimated to sell for $22,000-$32,000 🧐 +
So the painting above his desk is a Yun Hyong-Keun (idk the exact one). It also looks like it’s at least the 3rd Yun Hyong-Keun piece he owns. There was a different one in a pic from his home w Moni, and yet another diff one in the HYBE Insight 360 photo exhibit of BTS’ studios +
He’s one of Namjoon’s fave Korean artists, and is one of the most significant Korean artists of the 20th c. Joon’s visited lots of exhibitions (in Venice, NYC, in Korea) of his works over the yrs (he’s twted pics at several exhibitions & been reported to have attended others) +
It’s Yun Hyong-Keun’s paintings on the walls on the instastory video Joon posted of himself talking while at the museum in Texas +
As explained ⤵️, there was a joint exhibition with paintings by Yun Hyong-Keun at the Chinati Foundation

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