Volkshochschule Berlin Mitte (VHS), Anne Nguyen: Hello Nari Park. It is so nice to finally talk to you. At the end of last year we decided to put the picture of you on the cover of our programme for the year 2020 (see above). We didn’t even plan to take a picture of you back then. The photographer, Thabo Thindi, and me were on our way from the Interior Design class to the smartphone videomaking class, when we passed you in the stairwell. It was such a beautiful picture, the way you were sitting in the window frame and dreaming away…
Nari Park: Yes, I remember that moment so well. It was in October 2018, I just got out of my German class A1.1. My head was incredibly heavy. I just had to stop and look at the beautiful red vine leaves that climbed up the building. That moment where he took the picture of me actually felt like healing after the difficult morning class. At first I was hesitant about the picture. In Korea you don’t do this without any preparation. But I thought it would only be a tiny picture somewhere in the back…