BYUN SHI-JI STORIES · V8
50 WORKS · 50 STORIES · MANY PATHS
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 Follow a path
Text by Byun Joung Hoon
TODAY'S STORY
One story for today
Begin with one story, and go on into the works, the life, the voice, and the research.
A Color That Has Lived
Tropical Sun · 1983
FOLLOW A PATH
Which path today?
Following the body
Bowed head · two hands · bent back · stick
16 STORIES → WINDFollowing the wind
Leaning trees · manes · lowered bodies
11 STORIES → ABSENCEFollowing what has left
Boats · waiting · empty houses · Ieodo
15 STORIES → WHAT REMAINSFollowing what remains
Empty hands · an empty chair · a dot · no signature
9 STORIES →READ AS A BOOK
Four movements
FOUR DOORS
Four doors
SAME TITLE · DIFFERENT WORK
Same name, different time
ALL 50 STORIES
Fifty stories
What Comes into View as the End Draws Near
Memory that returns
- 01As the End Draws NearThe Path Rejoined · 1998
- 02GladnessGladness · 1979
- 03Only as Much as I RememberRecollection · 1988
- 04I Had Only to Lift My HeadLonging · 1985
- 05I Have Been a Long WaySelf-Portrait · 1944
- 06The Day We Carried the PaintingsWinter Trees · 1947
- 07From Where It Went WrongWoman with a Mandolin · 1948
- 08Can't I Stay Like This?Portrait of Nemo · 1951
- 09You Alone Will DoStandalone story
- 10The Old Tiger LaughsTiger · 1985
The Body Knew First
The body remembers first
- 11The Body Knew FirstFEMME · 1947
- 12I'd Like to Rest, TooPortrait of Mr. K · 1952
- 13The Knee That Rises FirstNude with Bowed Head · 1953
- 14The Back RemembersPorter · 1958
- 15Because I'll Be Back TomorrowStandalone story
- 16Before the Sun Goes LowerAutumn at Aeryeonjeong · 1971
- 17Not Looking the Same WayThe Pony · 1975
- 18So You've ComeJeju · 1976
- 19A Day It Didn't Look Like My PaintingStandalone story
- 20A Branch, or WritingStandalone story
- 21Just Stay TodayPlowing · 1979
- 22My Share of LookingSunset · 1979
- 23Forehead to ForeheadThe Sea Is the Haenyeo's Tears · 1989
- 24Who Leans on WhomA Drunken Life · 1994
- 25The Steps Still to WalkGoing On as It Is · 2006
What Remains After Leaving
The one who stays sends them off every day
- 26SafelyRite to the Sea God · 1976
- 27Eat Before You GoMother and Fish · 1979
- 28The Tree That Sees Them OffA Wave of the Hand · 1979
- 29Still Not UntiedThe Jetty · 1979
- 30I Could Take a StepThe Rock That Lifts Its Head · 1980
- 31Are You ThereIeodo · 1980
- 32I'm LookingA Long, Long Longing · 1981
- 33What News Have You BroughtNews · 1984
- 34Toward the ReturningThe Empty House · 1987
- 35Just a Little LongerThe Old Pine and the Old Man · 1987
- 36When I Went Out, I Didn't KnowThe Fisherman's House · 1993
- 37A Letter the Wind WritesAbsorbed · 1995
- 38Go WellLonging · 1996
What Is Left After Taking Away, One by One
Where the hand stops
- 39I Smiled a LittleA Lively Half-Day by the Sea · 1979
- 40Closer to the GroundTyphoon · 1983
- 41A Color That Has LivedTropical Sun · 1983
- 42A Face on a Single PointSelf-Portrait Bust · 1986
- 43Only the Wind I Could Not PaintWind · 1991
- 44There Was More SeaA Wavering Horizon · 2005
- 45Straighten Up and I'd FallNoon · 2007
- 46What RemainsEmpty-Handed We Come, Empty-Handed We Go · 2012
- 47A Place to SitThree-Legged Chair · 1986
- 48Now You LookStandalone story
- 49A Single Dot Was EnoughA Single Dot · 2006
- 50I Wrote NothingThe Last Work · 2013
Beyond the book
From a work to the life. From the life to the voice. Then on to another work.
STORY → WORK → RELATION → STORY