[사람 없는 초상] 해녀의 불턱

A portrait of a person made without the person: a bulteok, the low circular stone-walled shelter on a Jeju Island shore where women divers rest and warm themselves. Inside the ring of black volcanic stones, a small fire burned down to embers, a bright orange round float with a net bag hanging from it, flippers and a diving mask laid on a flat rock, a thermos and a bundle wrapped in cloth, a pair of rubber shoes. Grey winter sea and waves beyond the wall. Korean Jeju scene, not Japanese ama. No people, no text, no letters, no logos.