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MILO KIM
The Starving Artist
POS. Traits: Independent + Romantic + Thoughtful + Creative + Well-mannered + Pratical
NEG. Traits: Bottles up emotions - Brusque - Frugal - Secretive - Awkward - Negative outlook on life
She was like a painting; perfect, but her emotions seeped through the paint and canvas. Large, doll-like eyes fringed with thick lashes, always glossy and upset while the corner of her lips upturned in a fake smile; she was angelic. Her son was her whole world, and she felt she was failing him. Susan Kim was knocked up at nineteen, and from that moment on, she had been alone. Her own family, disappointed and disgusted with her, disowned her. The father of her son was nowhere to be found, leaving her on her own.

For the first six years of his life, Milo and his mother lived in a cheap motel located in LA. He can remember there distinctly being a roach problem and a lot of water damage on the ceiling. A cheap, dingy green-glow illuminated the cramped room. It always smelled of stale, muggy heat, and rose-scented laundry detergent. Although their circumstances were anything but comfortable and safe, he’s fond of those six years. By elementary school, his mother had worked enough to stabilize their residency in a two-roomed apartment.

Milo always had a creative flame within him. It started with finger painting in first-grade art class, which launched him into a life of self-expression through art. He outshone all his classmates throughout his school years in art; however, he struggled in every other subject. His grades always wobbled between a C and a D. His mind couldn’t wrap around the concepts his teachers presented him with. He asked so many questions in classes, it became laughable -- and his classmates did laugh at him. This aversion to academics followed him into high school.

Painting was encouraged by his mother; every birthday present he received was new, quality paints and canvases. The money she could’ve spent on herself went to her son’s breath-taking talent. Milo wasn’t sure art was a successful, stable career pathway he could take. His classmates spoke of going into difficult medical jobs, or boring office jobs; they were careers that guaranteed a desirable financial situation. But, with Susan being so persistent, he focused his intentions on making a name for himself.

Sadness was a big theme within his paintings. Most of them were inspired by his mother’s struggles: single-parenting, financial struggles, loneliness. Towards the end of her life, illness became apparent in his art pieces. Occasionally his paintings would reflect his internal feelings: struggling with sexuality, growing up in a dark and difficult life in the eyes of a child. By twenty, his paintings were being displayed in museums and auctioned off. He became a well-known artist in the art world. If his mother hadn’t been there to support his talent, he probably would’ve ended up in a normal job like most of his past classmates.

With his newfound fame and fortune, Milo and his mother finally got to live without worry.

Cancer ate away at his mother; she wilted away like a beautiful flower rotting into nothing. Milo spent days by her side while the life was drained out of her. By the time the blood cancer was discovered, it was already stage-4. Of course, he spent thousands of dollars on treatment, but it was to no avail. He expressed his depressing feelings through paintings, pieces he would never sell. A year before planning his vacation to New England, she passed away, and that’s when his art drought began.

MILO KIM
TWENTY-FIVE
MALE
HOMOSEXUAL
KOREAN-AMERICAN
POP. PAINTER
6'0
 








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