365 MOPEDS

As a novice artist, I set myself a simple rule: draw one thing every day for a year. I chose my Yamaha Future V, a 25-year-old moped bought in 1996, and drew it daily from April 2021 to April 2022. Later, I also began drawing my girlfriend’s 100cc Honda Win.

Through repetition, the moped became more than an object. It carried traces of the men in my family who had ridden it before me. My grandfather once saved for years to buy it. My father rode it across the country in his youth. My uncle lost it for a time to the pawnshop. Eventually, it returned to me.

At first, the project was about discipline, attention to detail, and the pleasure of daily practice. The motorbike itself is not fashionable or remarkable. But through constant drawing, it revealed another kind of beauty—one shaped by use, endurance, and survival.

Drawing the bike again and again forced me to imagine not only movement and distance, but also pride, restlessness, loss, and resilience. These emotions are not separate from me; they live in my body and shape my actions.

Through this repetitive process—of drawing, remembering, and reworking—I attempt to transform what I have inherited, and to renew it as something of my own.