Artwork text
The boat is turning into a dot. Soon it will be out of sight. The old pine stands
beside him and looks at the sea with him. Even so, the old man does not go into the
house. Because the moment he turns away, it feels as if the boat will vanish.
Because as long as he is watching, it feels as if it is still there.
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.