FŪDO 081 · 1990 · Middle Jeju · poem

Where To?

어디로

Basic information

Identifier	FŪDO 081
Title	Where To?어디로
Date	1990

Short commentary

They remain together without providing an answer. In the erased field, stillness itself becomes dignity.

Artwork text · poem

Text by Byun Joung Hoon

The wind erases the field.
It erases the road,
erases the footprints,
erases even the way back.
A single horse
stands with its head bowed low.
Where is it to go?
Before it,
a crow alights.
The bird that knows the way.
The bird that once passed
between this world and the next.
Yet it does not point the way.
It only sits
facing the horse.
By not answering,
it stays with it.
What a lost being
needs
is sometimes not a path
but a companion.
To stand in place,
not driven away by the wind.
That desolate stillness
is the only dignity
possible in this field.