Blue hope
140cm X 110cm (each)
C-print
2004



I installed three photographs of seaside views taken in Wolmido.
The image on the left shows myself staging the legendry story of
Mangbuseok, a woman who waited so long for her husband to
return that she turned into a rock by the sea.
On the right, I dressed up as a bus attendant from the 1960s on
a day off from work. As a bus attendant, she gave a big, cheesy
grin for the camera, looking like a fresh-faced girl from the
countryside trying to make it big in the city. But the fact is
that she's missing a left hand and that her hard-earned vacation
took place in Wolmido, the very island where General MacArthur
landed his troops in Korea War, 1950.
I took the central photograph from an archival image marking the
‘Incheon Landing’, the famous strategic
landing made by General MacArthur during Korea War, in 1950.
