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BYUN SHI-JI · FŪDO 017

Upepo na Mawimbi

Wind and Waves

1988 · Jeju, middle period

Byun Shi-Ji (변시지), Wind and Waves, 1988, painting from the middle Jeju period, shaped by wind and dried-grass colour.

Artwork text

Mawimbi ni marefu na upepo ni mkali.
Nyumba ya nyasi inakuwa chini, mti unapoteza matawi, farasi
anainamisha kichwa.
Umbo la kila mmoja limechongoka kidogo, lakini bado wapo mahali pao.
Kustahimili si kusimama bila jeraha.
Labda ni kujitoa kidogo kidogo, na hata hivyo kutotoweka hadi mwisho.

Key context

Byun Shi-Ji alikuwa mchoraji wa kisasa wa Korea aliyeiona Fūdo ya Jeju si kama mandhari ya nyuma, bali kama sharti la uwepo. Upweke, kusubiri, upepo na rangi ya nyasi kavu huunda usasa wa Kikorea wa kijumuiya-kienyeji, uliokita mizizi mahali na kufunguka kwa dunia.