Artwork text
The waves are high, and the wind is fierce.
The thatched house grows lower, the tree loses its branches, and the horse bows its
head.
Each has had its form worn away a little, yet each remains in its place.
To endure is not to hold out without wounds.
Perhaps it is to give oneself away little by little, and yet, in the end, not vanish.
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.