Yun Kyung Won, The Moon reflected on the Surface of Water, Mixed Media, 46 x 138cm , 2005

Even those contemporaries who attach little significance to what is called taboo try not to consider but instead to be reticent about ‘death.’. Perhaps this is because they have fear of it. If so, don’t we have any resolutions to this far but close truth? While people in the medieval ages tried to overcome this fear with their community power, contemporary society does not pay any attention to individual life and death. Therefore, human beings who remain lonely out of their seesaw struggle in life are getting cruel and left alone before imminent death. After all, man endeavored to conquer his limited span of life through the system of the so-called religion. However, death is obviously an object of fear with no absolute resolutions. If so, why can’t we accept it as it is? What does its accompanying pain come from? From physical pain or complete severance from all human relations? As the reason and methods to overcome may be explained from philosophical views, this work tries to accept this endless existentialistic fear out of the first step of emptying the mind away from greed and lingering attachment.
The work of “Any more implication to be attached to the moon reflected on the surface of the water...” moulds the shape of florally mullioned windows of the Buddhist temple that preaches the doctrine of emancipation, symbolically depicting the second resolution to the cold reticence of what is called death. It compartments the space into two, simplifies and transforms the windows representing time and the flowers denoting purity, awakening, emancipation, and longing, symbolizing the course of a lot of frustrations on the way to pure peace away from all greed and attachment.