[신들이 아직 여기 있다면] 바리공주

Bari Gongju, the abandoned princess of Korean shamanic myth who became the guide of the dead (Korean folk belief, Korean traditional clothing and objects, NOT Japanese, NOT Chinese.), in the family lounge of a Korean funeral hall at 3 AM. A young woman in a Korean shaman's ceremonial robe of red and yellow with long white sleeves and a small flower crown sits quietly at the end of a row of mourners' slippers by the door, holding a small bottle of clear spring water and a flowering willow branch on her lap, waiting to accompany someone. Low tables, folded mourning cushions, a stack of paper cups, fluorescent light. She is seen at a distance, filling about one third of the frame height. Gentle and patient, not frightening. No text, no letters, no hangul, no readable signs, no logos.