Como La Luna

by | Jul 24, 2025

Abstract drawings with transition, shadow, light, resilience

30 second eye burn drawing, 2023 – 2024, 9” x 12”, Color pencil on black paper by Kyung-jin Kim

For my dear queer friend from Lima, Perú, Alejandra Watanabe Farro.
¡Con amor y respeto por aquellas pláticas de corazón a corazón!

I am like the moon,
Soy como la luna,
I am like the god Kútsï, the P’urhepecha deity that illuminates the night:
I have multiple faces.

I am always changing, I change with the sunlight, You don’t always see me, But I am always there.
Sorry, my dear, I can’t show myself completely all the time, But I am always the one you love, Porque soy como la luna.
I wish I could show you all my marks, All my scars, I wish I could stand naked in front of you. You would be able to see todas las marcas time has left on me. Las marcas surgidas desde el caos de mi universo. Those marcas are my other side, Porque soy como la luna.
You will not see me completely. Sometimes, you will see what you want to see, And others, I may give you my brightest side. I am sorry, my dear, you can’t fully have me, Porque soy como la luna.
But don’t forget I dance with you, I dance with you every day, And even if you never reach me, I am always here, Porque soy como la luna.
Changing, transforming, I transform the land I step on, And I move across all the oceans, That’s the only way you will be able to fully see me. Maybe, if you are lucky, you may even feel me, Yes, feel me, When the waves of the ocean reach your feet. Porque soy como la luna.
Soy como la luna, Always changing, But I am always here, my dear, Probably one day you will have me completely, But for now, I offer you this light and shadow. They are everything I have, Everything I have for you, Porque soy como la luna, Soy como la luna,

Y a veces soy la luna misma.

Abstract drawings with transition, shadow, light, resilience

30 second eye burn drawing, 2023 – 2024, 9” x 12”, Color pencil on black paper by Kyung-jin Kim

Mario A. Gómez Zamora

Mario A. Gómez Zamora

Publab Fellow 2025

Mario A. Gómez Zamora is a queer P’urhépecha and mestizo poet originally from Tangancícuaro, Michoacán. He holds a B.A. in Education with concentration in History, a master’s in Teaching History, a M.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies, and a PhD in Latin American and Latino Studies and Anthropology. He is a UC Chancellor’s postdoctoral scholar at UCLA in the Anthropology Department and a Mellon Postdoctoral scholar the Humanities Center and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford, University.

Find more on his Instagram : @mario_colibri

Kyung-jin Kim

Kyung-jin Kim

Artist

Kyung-Jin Kim, an artist from South Korea, earned his MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and is currently teaching sculpture at Cornish College of the Arts. Through sculpture, kinetic devices, and interactive sound installations, Kim inducts a sense of what cannot be known through palpable lapse and void. His work has been showcased at various exhibition venues, including Gallery MC (NY), Korean Cultural Center NY, MASS MoCA Open Studios (MA), Governors Island Art Fair 2018 (NY), Equity Gallery (NY), Hunter College Project Space(NY), The Vestibule Gallery(WA), Spam New Media Festival(WA), Soil Gallery (WA), Gallery Ondo (South Korea, Seoul) and Gallery G (Japan, Hiroshima). Kim has participated in artist residencies such as MASS MoCA (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Flux Factory (NY), Sculpture Space in Utica (NY), and RU Residency program in New York. He received the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, category of Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design in 2019, New York Corp Artist Fund in 2021 and the Queens Council on the Arts : Art Access Grant in 2021. He is a co-founder of the artist group, “Jeju Island Artist Collective”   Find more on his website and Instagram: @kyung_jin_kim.