This South Korean artist is turning strangers’ Instagram posts into portraits
Maria Simulescu
CNN — For some people, Instagram’s infinite scroll is an endless time waster. For celebrated young South Korean artist Moka Lee, it’s the main source of inspiration for her portrait paintings, which have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. “I can observe countless people with just my phone without meeting them,” Lee tells CNN. “I wait to find something unique in the pictures that I come across by chance through the algorithm,” she adds. This week, her portrait “Surface Tension 07,” of
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