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and art is the visual manifestation of peoplehood, its what draws us to the museums and exhibitions and makes its way to our notebooks and desktop backgrounds and gift shop mugs. but art is often so so often overlooked and watered down into “something thats nice to look at” instead of like. a snapshot of life at a moment. abstract art is just “lines and rectangles,” The Black Square is just that, but no one looks close enough to notice the pinks and blues and yellows in its cracks.

and so hoseok makes use of the myths to discuss destiny and his place in a narrative. he turns the pandora myth on its head and makes defines hope outside of the box. hope as something confusing and sometimes painful but that we ourselves need to define. he himself defines what hope is to him, what J-Hope means.

and namjoon uses art and his love for a medium so impersonal to him to explore those feelings of exhibition. putting himself up behind a glass casing and having to sit still still still so that he can keep being seen even though its barely belong to him anymore. but being resigned to it and coming to terms with that parasociality through another love outside of what RM has been define by.