Artwork text
Across the top, a thick line divides sky from sea.
Above it floats a single small boat.
Below, a low thatched house and a horse with its head bowed.
The wind has already passed.
But in the swept texture, the pressed-down roof, the bent back, its memory remains.
Just because it is no longer seen does not mean the marks have healed.
Even when the wind is gone, the place that endured it remembers for a long time.
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.