100 Works/FŪDO 089
The Letter
편지
Basic information
| Identifier | FŪDO 089 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Letter편지 |
| Date | 2006 |
Short commentary
The letter is written despite knowing no reply will come, because writing seats the departed person before us once more.
Artwork text · essay
Text by Byun Joung Hoon
A letter is a way of sending the heart to someone who cannot be reached. The person remains on land and writes, and the small boat carries that heart out to the far sea. No reply will come. He knows this. Still, he writes. While he writes the letter, he is still speaking to the one who left. He calls that name, recalls the days gone by, and sets down the words he could not say. The one who left does not return. Yet for as long as he keeps speaking, that person becomes, in his heart, someone seated before him once more. And so he writes. So as not to lose, not yet, the time he shared with that person.
Map of relations · Late Jeju, 1996–2013
Survival, reduction, noon, the single dot and the last work.
- figure
- fūdo
Related oral history
Life & time
- 2006The Letter was painted in 2006.
