Artwork text
At the edge of a low hill, a horse stands huddled as a black outline.
There is no special event here.
Only a single light dyes the hill, the sea, and the sky all at once.
To lay down this color of dry grass was itself to call forth Jeju.
The horse at the cliff's edge and the sea below it breathe the same Fūdo within the
same color.
This color does not cover the landscape.
It reveals the Fūdo.
This color is this very land.
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.