Artwork text
Under a yellow sky, a thatched house, a tree, a horse, and a figure remain in one
place.
For Heidegger, to dwell was to remain deeply in a place.
Dwelling is not merely to have a house. It is to receive the wind of that place, to
endure its rain and sun, and at last to become part of its Fūdo.
The stooped figure remains for a long time within the stone wall.
Not to occupy a place, but to become part of it.
In this painting, dwelling is not a place to live, but a posture for enduring the world.
Key context
Byun Shi-Ji was a Korean modern and contemporary painter who treated Jeju’s Fūdo not as scenery but as a condition of existence. Through solitude, waiting, wind and the colour of dried grass, his art formed a glocal modernism rooted in Korea and open to the world.