Broken Wings
This work reveals the process of internalizing the wandering individual by looking at 1920s Seoul through the eyes of a poet and projecting it onto a character who feels the absurdity of the times.
Through the text, we can read the psychology of the poet, who was confused in the gap between the situation of the Japanese occupation and his identity as a modernist 100 years ago, and the artist, who is wandering between the endless disruption of time and space and the emptiness of personal value 100 years later.
Since the work extends to the self as a social being as well as the self as an individual being, it expresses the fact that we are not different from then and now and reveals an attempt to understand the times.
Design Concept
I researched the streets of Honmachi and created a design that is similar to how the streets looked in the past, but with the chaos and luxury of that era.
This jazzy space called Peninsula Spring is a collection of melancholy, emptiness, luxury, and all the chaos.
I wanted to understand his mind, and I tried to capture the emotions and atmosphere of the modern street that I felt.
Reference
This street is a 1930 Gyeongseong street located in Euljiro, Jongno-gu, Seoul.
During the Japanese occupation, this street was called the Japanese street, and unlike the Korean street, it was full of luxury and entertainment.
It is a good location to show the identity and confusion about Koreans among intellectuals studying in Japan during that time.
