Artwork text
A thin line
divides the sea and the sky.
Far away, a small boat;
at the water's edge, a person holding a fishing rod.
But there is no line.
Because there is nothing to catch.
Waiting
is not a time for gaining something.
It is to leave the heart for a long time
turned toward what does not come.
And so waiting is long,
and longer still.
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.