The sun was shining on the corner

Garden Exposition Seoul 2015

This garden is not about comfort women but it’s capturing the expression of ‘a young twelve year old girl from the past’ who’s looking at her sunny backyard.
The main structure of this garden is the 20-meter-long crossed wall filled with personal belongings and drawings from the girl’s past. One of the garden from our ancestor ‘Soswaewon’ has a wall called ‘Aeyangdan’ and it means the ‘sun-loving wall’.
It means everyone can feel the sunlights, always looking forwardand has love for the right, righteous and bright world. We cannot even begin to fathom the pain and sorrow of those girls but we do hope that our future generations will keep taking care of this garden and remember them.
The plant plans were specially thought through and planted Korean naturalized flowers which butterflies love. We hope butterflies all over the world will fly and visit this garden to spread the hope. “We shall never forget the butterfly drawn by the girl.”

Site Nanjido

Beautiful Nanjido, Before Becoming Land of Death
This Nanjido(name of the land)used to grow peanuts ands orghum. It was full of orchids andLithospermum erythrohizon and many other flowers and used to be the resting place for the migratory bird. However, in 1978 the land was announced as a landfill of Seoul city and during 15 years, 92000tons of waste has filled the land and there were two waste mountain that used to be 100meters tall. It was full of malodor, dust and flies.After stopping the shipment of waste, the land was filled with methane and leachate which worsened the environment, we thought no living creature can live in Nanjido. But a few years later, we have found out ecosystem has gradually recovered, now it is on progress of safety construction for protecting the land from environmental pollution and it will be continued until year 2020. After shuting down the Nanjido landfill, Seoul city is putting all their effort to make ecosystem park around Nanjido and surrounding zone. As part of that project, last year in 2015 it has held its first garden exhibition within the park and I was the invited artist and I was given small land to create a permanently preserved garden.

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Email:namoovi@gmail.com | Address:9 Belsize Lane NW3 5AD,UK | Tel:+82 10 4577 0125
Copyrigth(c)Jihae H
Photograph by seungmin Woo, sunghee Jo, Yeseul Jang, Seoungyong Lee, Image Joom

Email:namoovi@gmail.com | Address:9 Belsize Lane NW3 5AD,UK | Tel:+82 10 4577 0125
Copyrigth(c)Jihae H
Photograph by seungmin Woo, sunghee Jo, Yeseul Jang, Seoungyong Lee, Image Joom