FŪDO 068 · 2003 · Late Jeju · poem

Apparition

환상

Basic information

Identifier	FŪDO 068
Title	Apparition환상
Date	2003

Short commentary

Human and horse become one mass of stone, an apparition of a heart unable either to leave or to stop waiting.

Artwork text · poem

Text by Byun Joung Hoon

Across the whole image,
dry light ripples.
Like waves,
like a field,
it is all a yellowed texture.
At the center,
a horse and a person,
entwined in one black mass,
hold on to each other.
Above them hangs a dry sun.
Under this light,
what has waited too long
loses its movement.
The person and the horse,
leaning against each other, harden.
Unable to leave,
unable to let go,
they become, at last, a single stone.
Even as stone,
it is the form of a heart
that could not lay down its waiting.