Core 30/CORE 18 / 30
Hallasan
한라산
- Landscape as lived posture
- invisible centre
- dwelling
Before the painting
Beneath a ring-like sun and a few black mountain lines stand a thatched house, stone wall, bowed horse and stooped person; Hallasan becomes the condition of the whole scene.
Art-Historical Structure
Hallasan is compressed into a few lines, yet remains the underlying centre of the island.
The lowered house, bowed horse and stooped person share postures acquired through the same fūdo. Landscape is what a place leaves in bodies after life has been lived there.
Key Sentence
Landscape is not a background, but the posture left in a body by a life lived within a place.CORE 18 · Hallasan · 1987
Image and base identification: byunshiji.org / works / 009
Philosophical statements are critical interpretations grounded in the work, not presented as direct quotations from the artist.