Yongsan[1], a place where the deaths happened, has become a graveyard for those who are still alive.To us who had to question our meaning of existence in the face of the deaths,it is a place where one has to witness the death of one’s very life to condole your deaths. I remember the late night I wandered breathlessly in construction site for apartment complexes, on barren heaps of earth. I try to remember that day, the day that everyone mentions but cannot easily deny. Deserted stones, broken trees. Sound from whirling wind.With my camera, I started capturing fragments of daily lives, the pieces that I had faced with but ignored. Dusts come to me and say things, to me who wanted to mourn but didn’t want to walk into the grave together with the dead.

[1] On the night of 20 January 2009, a tragic accident happened in a redevelopment site in Yongsan. 6 people, including 5 former tenants and 1 police officer, were burnt to death. The fire was happened while a SWAT unit was trying to take the demonstrators down from the rooftop of Namildang building. Along with the 6 deaths, 23 persons were injured during the operation. The accident was followed by a huge controversy over the overt violence during the operation, the issue of hired thugs who were indirectly hired by construction companies, improper safety measures, etc.