THE SOUL’S ECHO, 2006
Installation
Granite, soapstone, marble, and other stones collected over a long period of time

Dadeumi stones are traditional objects in Korean domestic culture, used as supports beneath freshly washed fabric while it was beaten with wooden paddles to smooth wrinkles and bring out its sheen.

Dadeumi (다듬이질)

The act of fulling cloth carries a distinct, repetitive sound shaped by labor and time.  In Korean tradition, it holds deep resonance for women: a sound rooted in endurance, devotion, and an unspoken longing for freedom.

Within its cadence, the emotional traces of the past desire, anger, sorrow are absorbed and released, shaped by lives marked by sacrifice and care.  The rhythm becomes both expression and release, where grief is transformed into a quiet, resolute strength.  

Dudeurim (두드림)

A rhythmic striking extends this gesture.  Through repeated movement, the body enters a state of focus and alignment.  The space is cleared, the mind stilled, the posture grounded.  The act attuned itself to the rhythm of the heartbeat, where body and awareness move together.

What emerges is not simply sound, but an embodied transmission.  Echoing the fading resonance of Dadeumi, it carries across time, holding memory, labor and emotion within each strike.

This work is approached with the same concentration as painting.  But instead of a brush, the body becomes the medium, and movement becomes the mark.