The multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and I were honored to be invited by Bozar to craft a performance that explores the profound themes of love and South Korea. Our journey began in Seoul this past March, where we discovered an unexpected kinship in the ways we experience the world. Among the many shared passions, we were drawn to the quiet, non-human love that arises in the stillness of Korea’s mountains—where the landscape seems to embrace you as part of it.
There, I collected sounds through field recording, images that I converted into drawings and paintings, and inspiration from local crafts. For this show I specially made moon jars (traditional Korean ceramics) in ceramic, glass and papier-mâché, which served as containers for my live field recordings with hydrophones and DIY microphones. To envelop the public in a comfortable mall world I also made large veils in the delicate shapes of pogaji (Korean patchwork) onto which the paintings were projected, and cushions inspired by bojahi (Korean knotted cushions), all with second-hand fabric.
For us, love here is not just an emotion, but the sensation of being woven from the same threads as the world around us. It’s a subtle interconnection that flows between us all.
Through this show, we invited the public into that feeling—a moment of unity and resonance. Korea lives in Jiha’s instruments, in my own soundscapes, in the gentle curves of the Moon jar vases used for live field recordings, and in the veils, which echo the delicate shapes of pogaji, as well as the cushions, inspired by the rich textures of bojahi. This is a space where tradition, sound, and memory merge to weave something timeless.
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