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A place that sings quietly rather than explaining the paintings: poems and essays for 100 works and the monologues of wind, painter and painting.
Text by Byun Joung Hoon
Literature · The Empty Space · The place of resonance
The empty space is not empty. It is full of wind and silence. Here we do not explain the painting; we sing it, low.
Poems and essays for 100 works
Read the poem or essay attached to each painting together with the image.
Open → MONOLOGUE TRILOGYThe Painter Who Swallowed the Wind
Wind, painter and painting speak in turn.
Open → STORIES · 50Stories
What Is Not Painted Holds Up What Is Painted
Fifty monologues that follow the works and life of Byun Shi-Ji. Read them like a book, or walk the paths between them.
Read from the first → TEMA 100A Hundred Years of Wind — 100 Essays
100 Essays on the Art of Byun Shi-Ji
100 themes on Byun's art · KO/EN
Read → LITERATURELiterary Ground
Reading Korean literature’s vernacular lyricism and language of solitude alongside Byun Shi-Ji’s aesthetics of fūdo.
Read → 34 LANGUAGESMultilingual literary editions
Read the poems and essays for all 100 works and the complete three-part Wind Monologue in thirty-four languages.
Open →◦ Work images in poems and essays link to the corresponding chapter in Research.