Now descending.
This site is read by depth, not by year. Work still in progress floats at the surface; the longer ago a piece was finished, the deeper it has sunk.
Paper Flowers
Branching off from one page of Still, Here: work that continues on the ward, week by week.
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Yusuam Pyeonghwa 5-gil
Walking, and recording, a village built in 1969 by people who came from elsewhere.
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I went into the ward for one month as a locum doctor, then kept going back every month for three years. Diptychs that set portraits beside belongings and handwriting left uncorrected.
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The Ocean of Mind
Emotions that drifted over from creatures under the sea. To feelings that have no name in Korean, I paired words from languages around the world, one by one: a field guide to emotions.
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The Ocean of Mind
“The blurred image holds the waves of emotion; the name of the emotion turns the photograph back into a living story.”
Haewon Choi
For thirty years I listened to people’s stories in a consulting room. I held two solo exhibitions of underwater photographs, and now I live in Yusuam on Jeju and photograph people on land. I am still learning how listening differs from looking.
2025 · Solo exhibition, The Ocean of Mind (underwater) · Ryugaheon, Seoul / Halla Ilbo ED Gallery, Jeju