Sunday, January 13, 2008

烏瞰圖 詩第四號

患者의容態에관한문제.
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22ㆍ33333333
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4444ㆍ555555
55555ㆍ66666
666666ㆍ7777
7777777ㆍ888
88888888ㆍ99
999999999ㆍ0
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謬斷 0 : 1

26.10.1931

以上 責任醫師 李 箱


The problem related to the state of patient.
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1ㆍ222222222
22ㆍ33333333
333ㆍ4444444
4444ㆍ555555
55555ㆍ66666
666666ㆍ7777
7777777ㆍ888
88888888ㆍ99
999999999ㆍ0
0000000000ㆍ

Diagnosis 0 : 1

26.10.1931

Above is the medical opinion by Lee Sang.



This is a poetry written by korean poet, Lee Sang during the the era of Japanese occupation. It is a series of poem in same title, and the one above is the series 4. I was looking into it and surprised that how visually artistic the poem is with the numbers and organization of that. This guy is also famous for using geometric vocabularies to express certain situations he imagines. Most of the interpretation of his poem is related back to the occupied state of Korea, but I think there are more meanings behind it - like state of human mind, architecture, geometry and so on.. maybe string theory?

Anyway, this whole thing was brought up because I had to go to a dinner party which theme is a poetry, and this will be my presentation - it's a good one isn't it?

More info about the poet and his poem will be up here soon.

2 comments:

Ben said...

it feels like a psychological earthquake, only on a societal scale

Jihyeun Byeon said...

i know. very simple and powerful -