Where am I now? My life can be divided into two big cities, Seoul and London. While I spend half of the year in Seoul, and another half in London, I felt trapped in a strange spot between two places. Therefore, this project has started with these questions; Where am I? How can I define myself? What kind of world do I belong to? In other words, this project is a journey to figure out where I am.
This project is set in London where half of my heart is. London is the place where I live now and that has a high possibility of living in the future. I believe, therefore, that this should be the place to find an answer to my path. The starting point of the journey is the prime meridian. I choose the meridian as a beginning point because it is a symbol of the time zone of London where I am and also a reference point for the time of many cities where potentially I could live in the future.
This also symbolises that no matter which direction I’ll be going in, the starting point of my
journey will be always London. Hence, I open the door to my journey at the meridian. The
destination is the exit for the maze that I’ve trapped in now. Sometimes, the journey is peaceful, and there is someone who walks the same path together. Sometimes, I need help and I feel burdened. However, I have to continue the journey even though it is challenging. This is because if I am stuck in this strange spot, I will always be a stranger. This journey has a continuity that has to flow albeit with thousands of interruptions like life never stops in any circumstance.
In this journey, I learn to move forward. It is not yet known where the end of this journey will be. I expressed this ambiguous state in a black-and-white photograph. But one thing is clear: I will continue walking down the road somewhere I can stand me as me. The black-and-white world will one day reach its destination and be coloured. This project is a promise for me to walk silently until I get to the destination.