YouTuber Thursday Reminds US That Home is a State of Mind

Brooklyn-based YouTuber Thursday documents a life of solitude. From preparing a meal to spending time with her cat, Thursday brings a sense of gratitude to the mundane moments and days we all experience. Before Thursday started her YouTube channel, she studied art history and pursued a full-time career as an artist. Being an artist meant the world to her until a period of loss led her to see things differently, not only the world around her, but what she was pursuing. This led her to pick up a camera and start filming. With no plan for what she was recording, things just happened.

When Selfless Art sat down with Thursday, we originally intended to follow our usual format of seven questions. But as we began to create them, something about a traditional Q&A didn't feel quite right.

So instead of asking Thursday seven questions, we asked her none and provided her with the following prompt:

This is a blank page between you and your audience. No word count, no formal opening, no rules. Just you and your thoughts.

Below is her response.

What Pain Tells Us

There was a time when I desperately chased my dream of creating video installation art. I supposed I harbored a fantasy about becoming an ‘artist’ back then.

After going through the adversity of losing a beloved family member and parting ways with a loved one at the same time, I began to see the world a little differently. I felt as though my old self had died a painful death.

I stopped making art for art and started to film what I was truly drawn to; the beauty in the mundane life such as sunrises, sunsets, how the shadows move in my tiny only Brooklyn apartment, how my cat interacts with me and so on.

When my hard drive was packed with the footage of light and shadows, I felt an urge to weave them together into individual stories. That’s how I started my channel, Thursday. I realized that labeling doesn’t really matter all that much. Is that an art, vlogs or both? I still don’t know what to call it. However, the important thing is that we are living in a highly chaotic transitional period, and YouTube is already a critical platform to record all of this in history.

Why Thursday?

Many people have asked how I named my channel ‘Thursday.’ If our entire life were a single week, I feel like I am somewhere around Thursday; not quite the weekend yet, but definitely not too hectic as Monday through Wednesday. I wanted to show my life as a Thursday through video journaling. This channel is about the solitude of living alone, whether at home or in the city, and the peace of mind that can be found within it.

What Home Means to Me

I was born and raised in South Korea and came to the US to study art when I was in my early 20s. As I have been living in New York for 17 years, I no longer really know where to call ‘home.’

When I visit Korea once in a few years, people treat me as a stranger by the way I talk, wear or think. When I live in New York, I am also treated as a foreigner by the way I look. I have seen Anna Boghiguian’s interview on the Louisiana Channel on YouTube, she said, “If you don’t belong anywhere, you belong to yourself.”

I have lived as a wanderer for a long time, without the concept of “home” in my heart. When I finally decided to share my videos on YouTube, I wanted to create my own “home,” not the physical one, but home as the state of my mind.

Many people mentioned in the comment that my videos feel like home, which I take as the best compliment

Thursday's YouTube channel reminds us that those moments of solitude are the times we are truly ourselves, yet we so easily take them for granted. It’s within these moments that we are truly at peace, within these moments we are home. To see more from Thursday, be sure to visit and subscribe to her YouTube channel .

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