Gangnam Deep Blue

Gangnam Deep Blue, 2025

Overthinking is useless. Naming is hard. But a title — the right one — should enrich.

The approaches are endless.

Poetic. Narrative. Symbolic.

Some say naming is part of the art itself — that it can shape the way an image is felt. So I reached out to ChatGPT, hoping for a spark. It gave me plenty of ideas. Some were beautiful. Some clever. None of them felt quite right.
Maybe the suggestions weren’t the issue. Maybe I hadn’t been clear with myself.

What I did know — and have known for a while — is that I prefer odd numbers.
In structure. In rhythm. In naming.

And I believe creativity thrives in constraints. So I followed that inner pull and set a rule: three words.

That felt clean. Complete. Mine.

With “Gangnam Deep Blue”, I stopped chasing it. After all the back-and-forth, I sat quietly and looked again.

What stood out? The color.
That blue, in the background, the jacket, the carrier. I pulled up the dropper and measured it: #153858. A deep, metallic kind of blue. Not quite navy. Not quite steel. No real name for it, but it held the scene together. So I paired that hue with the place: Gangnam. Three words. Odd number. A name that felt like the picture.

That’s how “Gangnam Deep Blue” was born.

Now that I think about it, the name makes me feel good. It fits. It adds weight. It transforms the image into something closer to art — something that can shift your emotional state, even if only slightly. At least, it does that to me.

Note to self: Don’t overthink it. But don’t ignore it, either. The name of an artwork can enrich the experience. Sometimes it anchors the feeling. Sometimes it is the feeling.