FŪDO 095 · 2004 · Late Jeju · poem

Wide Sea, Narrow Path

넓은 바다 좁은 길

Basic information

Identifier	FŪDO 095
Title	Wide Sea, Narrow Path넓은 바다 좁은 길
Date	2004

Short commentary

Life may be less about finding a straight road than about walking a bent path to its end.

Artwork text · poem

Text by Byun Joung Hoon

Beside the wide sea, in one corner, an old man walks, leaning on a staff. The hill before him is not straight. It rises, falls low, and stretches far again. The path a person has walked could not go straight either. At times turning back, at times lowering the body, it has come this far. On that bent line lies the time of a life. Life is not the search for a straight road, but the walking of a bent road all the way to the end.

The sea is wide and the path is narrow. Still he chose the path. For only on the path can he walk.