[사람 없는 초상] 표구사 작업대

A portrait of a person made without the person: the work table of an old Korean picture-framing and mounting shop. A long low table covered with a sheet of hanji being backed onto a painting, a wide flat paste brush resting across a bowl of wheat starch paste, a bone folder, a ruler, a row of scrap hanji strips trimmed and saved, rolls of silk border fabric on a shelf, and drying boards on the wall with mounted blank paintings stretched out. A cushion on the floor pressed into a deep hollow. Soft side light. Korean, not Japanese. No people, no text, no letters, no seals.