Artwork text
On the shore, someone is sitting.
It seems they have waited too long for someone who does not come.
The body has hardened like stone, and the heart, faded by the wind, has become
dry grass.
Only the pony passing nearby and the boat far off know that waiting.
The color of dry grass is not a color of nature.
It is the color a life, worn out by waiting, has left within 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.