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Catalogue Segment 1

Works 001–025

FŪDO 001 · 1978

Ieodo

Fūdo is not a view observed from afar, but a condition entered bodily, where one receives the same wind and cools within it.

FŪDO 002 · 1986

Dialogue

Human and horse receive the same wind, remain in the same place, and bend together. Enduring the same fūdo without words is itself a dialogue.

FŪDO 003 · 1985

In Memoriam

Dwelling is not occupying a place, but gradually becoming part of it.

FŪDO 004 · 1977

Brother Islands

Fūdo is not a background. It is a condition.

FŪDO 005 · 1986

A Wavering Horizon

This is not merely landscape, but the posture through which a human being faces the world.

FŪDO 006 · 1983

A Wavering Horizon

Even when every standard wavers, one raises the gaze toward what is still to come.

FŪDO 007 · 2005

A Wavering Horizon

To endure is not to survive alone.

FŪDO 008 · 1983

Tropical Sun

This yellow is not merely local colour; it is the colour of life that has endured.

FŪDO 009 · 1987

Hallasan

Landscape is not a background behind a person, but the posture formed by a life lived there.

FŪDO 010 · 2011

The Sea of Jeju

The sea does not only divide; it also keeps distant lives within the same body of water.

FŪDO 011 · 1989

The Sea Is the Haenyeo's Tears

Endurance is not defeating the world, but leaning on one another enough not to collapse.

FŪDO 012 · 2007

Noon

Endurance is not waiting for a windless day, but keeping one's path while the wind continues.

FŪDO 013 · 2007

The Tree That Reaches Toward the Sky

Even while lowered, life continues upward and refuses to forget the sky.

FŪDO 014 · 1995

Solitude

The bent form is not a trace of defeat, but the shape of endurance that has not forgotten the sky.

FŪDO 015 · 1984

In the Wind

Everything leans in one direction as the wind's signature. Endurance may mean leaning together so as not to break.

FŪDO 016 · 1991

Wind

Everything shakes, yet nothing withdraws. When the wind passes, the posture that endured remains.

FŪDO 017 · 1988

Wind and Waves

Endurance is not remaining unhurt, but yielding little by little without disappearing.

FŪDO 018 · 1990

Typhoon

Even after the wind disappears, the place that endured it remembers for a long time.

FŪDO 019 · 1983

Typhoon

There are two ways to meet the wind: resist it or move with it. Endurance is bending together enough not to break.

FŪDO 020 · 1993

The Sea in Storm

To lie down is not to lose. It is to leave enough strength in the earth to rise again.

FŪDO 021 · 1991

Storm

It is impossible to tell who protects whom. Endurance is borrowing one another's bodies.

FŪDO 022 · 1984

Storm

The line follows the wind rather than the contour. It releases rather than encloses.

FŪDO 023 · 1996

Rough Sea, Wet Sky

The greatest forces fall silent before one small existence they cannot wholly overcome.

FŪDO 024 · 2005

Survival 2

To bend is to resist breaking; to rise is to resist disappearance.

FŪDO 025 · 1987

The Wavering Skiff

Endurance means sharing the wavering of a distant existence and refusing to withdraw one's gaze.