Artwork text
The wind, first of all,
lays the land down.
The tree tilts,
and the horse braces its body upright.
The old man, with a single staff,
plants himself on his own ground.
Everything sways.
But none of them steps back.
When the wind passes,
the posture that endured remains.
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.