Landlocked Sea
2016
public installation

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Home is neither a structure, nor an enclosed space. Home is a part of the human body and mind, like a limb or a memory layer. No matter how stable it is or how deep its foundation reaches, there is always a possibility that it may be gone. Based on that fleeting nature, Landlocked Sea imagines how and in what forms the idea of home would survive when it’s gone. The work consists of two bathtubs, bathtubs contain water in them and the water ripples with the color black. In the middle of nowhere, bathtubs are buried side by side into the ground like an anonymous family tomb, till they become horizontal frames on land that frame the water. The blackness of the water makes it impossible to see what’s under yet on the surface the reflection of the viewer becomes clear. By showing a basic component of a home in the form of an inverted boat, the work suggests to see what is not there.

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