Walking in Your Past

Jiwon,


I prefer to call your real name...


I felt very excited when reading your letter about your childhood with your grandmother in Young Cheon Market. So I decided to leave my team and found the market by myself. It was happened around two weeks ago and I didn't have time to put things in order. Now I am writing my past which is your past as well. It seems to me another interesting occurrence to me.

떡 Ddeok 
Traditional Korean rice cakeI bought a pack of colorful rice for testing. I thought each color would have different flavors but actually not... they all tasted similar or the same... filled with sesame paste.













내복 Underwear
My Korean friend Soyoon told me this is not old fasion anymore. Some of young people still wear this kind of complete set, costed about 22,000 Won.

 서대문 Seo dae Mun

Independent Gate
One of my favorite photos, shot in the middle part of pedestrian zebra from Young Cheon Market to Independent Gate. I didn't have time to walk inside of the park, maybe together with you next time.

At dawn, it is the scenery of a platform near London. If I didn't say it is London, it wouln't look that different from a platform somewhere in Korea. I have been always a urban girl. I was born in a city. I was brought up in a city. And I settled down in another city after my thirties. My trajectory goes from a city to another.

Life is going along at its own pace, sometimes slow sometimes fast. My life shifts different times through different spaces and my work is to patternise and metaphorise those different realities. Metaphor(meta-phorein) in the original sense as in Greek it means 'transportation'...

I am grateful for this Hope's invitation that we create (a) performance(s) together as international artists. I don't know how we will shape or where we will arrive, but this is an exciting new journey through spaces and times....

Fall in Korea

Jiwon,

I'd love to praise the beauty of Autumn in Korea. It is so beautiful here in these couple weeks. Although some of the flowers I photoed previously are fading now, I still keep watching their changes in colors and shapes day after day. To me, I aware more of the importance of being in its disappearance, like people always learn to cherish something as it is not existed anymore.

Somehow sometimes I have to remind myself I am living in the time now, not in the past, in dreams or in any fictional settings. Have you ever have this thought? So, when I awake from my imaginations, sometimes I have a little depression. It is meant that I would prefer to stay in my imainary world more than the reality......

I am really enjoy the time now, not just the Autumn here, but the satisfication of every aspects, including the new friends I met here, the task I am working on, the food and the nature... Once I even had a thought to move to Korea. Hahaha, I am actually into a situation of "fall-in-love" with Korea!