FŪDO 024 · 2005 · Late Jeju · poem

Survival 2

생존 2

Basic information

Identifier	FŪDO 024
Title	Survival 2생존 2
Date	2005

Short commentary

To bend is to resist breaking; to rise is to resist disappearance.

Artwork text · poem

Text by Byun Joung Hoon

All is darkness, all fierce waves.
Under a black sky
white spray rises,
and the sea boils.
In the midst of it,
a few black birds
surge against the current.
Spreading their wings,
they withstand the crashing waves.
So as not to be driven back,
so as not to sink.
Not because anyone told them to.
They rise
because they are alive.
To bend
is to keep from breaking,
and to rise
is to keep from vanishing.
Above the dark waves,
those little wings
show all
that the word life means.