Critic
비평 Critic
Nature of Life
(For Soon-Im Kim)
She is small and fragile
A sculptor, she says when you ask her to give you a purpose of being
When she is sad, she carves self-portraits with a pen or is it with a knife?
Striving unconsciously to fight mortality
On a piece of paper
Or wood
When she is happy, she makes cotton drawings of others
She is interested in faces, she declares,
The cracks on the cheeks caused by the mountain wind or by the salty freeze of the ocean
The lines at the edges of the eyes,
The oddments of past smiles around the mouth,
All,
omens of living
in one place
at a certain time
Sometimes she takes long walks and documents her encounters with stones, seeds, rivers
The ongoing current, she says, is what she is here for
And I believe her
FromKiki Denis (writerNYC. USA)