Shrimp Paste

Mixed media on longing and laughter This piece captures the pungent joy of meeting your artist friends in real life, finally! After years of screen-glow friendships and emoji critiques, you collide in the flesh: awkward hugs, loud laughs, and shared fries. It’s messy, honest, and smells a little like shrimp paste—unexpectedly heartwarming, wildly human, and hard to describe to people who weren’t there. Art is cool. But artists? Even better.