Projective Verse of ㅇ

ㅇ is a sound of water. It lives where fluids flow and floats through effortlessly. The Korean consonant ㅇ is mute at the beginning of words, it has marginal, empty space to breathe. It embraces absence and presence within. It is a passage of an umbilical cord. It is a lifeline. The depth of ㅇ is infinite, filled with countless days and nights. Through into ㅇ, there are full of resonant light-forms and spacetime-colors.

Last year, I visited my homeland, South Korea, and had motorcycle trips crossing all over the motherland and islands. Passing through all the waves from mountains, oceans, rocks, and wind, I fully soaked up summer misty green and coated myself with winter shimmering blue. All my planes were open and intermingled. All ㅇ on the body are alive to alter with them.

Landscapes can awaken people to who they are. They remind us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there. The experience of distance, of inner distance and outer distance, of distance in time and distance in space, is the first fundamental transcendence experience.

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