Chapter 04 · When Wind Became Form
Existence Remains After Light
The black sun and the wavering world
Online Exhibition/Chapter 4
Hope did not lie in becoming bright, but in refusing to abandon one another’s place in darkness.
Dried-grass colour enters a darker phase. The sun blackens, the horizon wavers and the mountain contracts into a few lines. Yet existence does not disappear. Human and horse, old pine and old man, empty boat and crow testify to one another without any promise of light.
FŪDO 070 · 1985
The Black Sun
검은 태양
- Middle Jeju
- Persistence without light
A black sun and small boat hover above a rough sea, while human and horse remain below; the sun is present but offers no illumination.
When the sun rises without illuminating the world, life remains by leaning upon another.
FŪDO 005 · 1986
A Wavering Horizon
흔들리는 수평선
- Middle Jeju
- An unstable boundary
A thin horizon bends high in a yellow field, while a small boat and birds drift above a low house, figure and black tree clinging to the earth below.
When the horizon wavers, dignity appears not in correcting the world but in keeping contact with the earth.
FŪDO 009 · 1987
Hallasan
한라산
- Middle Jeju
- Landscape as lived posture
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.
The mountain is not background; it is a condition entering house, human and bowed horse.
FŪDO 079 · 1987
The Old Pine and the Old Man
노송과 노인
- Middle Jeju
- Holding through the gaze
A small old man stands beneath a monumental pine, both facing a boat diminishing across the sea.
The old pine and old man hold the direction of the departing boat and delay the completion of farewell.
FŪDO 064 · 1987
Ieodo
이어도
- Middle Jeju
- Testimony of absence
An empty boat cuts across a rough orange sea while a black crow flies or cries near the waves; only traces of the missing human remain.