Friday, July 30, 2004
Up The Kilometres' Tenth: Northern Seoul
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A linear mosaic of rectangular spaces, some green, others grey, each greying while stubby cement crosses on roof crests like stoic weathervanes ward off patchworks of yellow, Indian red, ochre and soft, sandy brown bricked walls; in the distance, a woman slowly empties a glazed earthenware pot of its unknown contents while a man in blue shorts and an unbottoned grey shirt hobbles down three flights, stops, lights a cigarette and shambling, disappears through an alley. Further still -- past wires and abandoned bricks and latticed rooftop gardens, a clothesline is cleaned before pink and blue bedsheets are hung with wooden pins and blue, green and dark yellow shirts -- labourers pour a concrete roof, smoothing and spreading silky grey sand and water with small rusty spades, dabbing their brows with soft blue rags as a sixth watches on. Gold and blood red dragonflies add dimension to the view of mountainsides, green with young conifers and lower with ginko trees akimbo naked pink slabs of exposed granite face, set below motionless cumulus heaps, swollen, white, and quietly creeping east by southeast.
S*
2004.07.30
A linear mosaic of rectangular spaces, some green, others grey, each greying while stubby cement crosses on roof crests like stoic weathervanes ward off patchworks of yellow, Indian red, ochre and soft, sandy brown bricked walls; in the distance, a woman slowly empties a glazed earthenware pot of its unknown contents while a man in blue shorts and an unbottoned grey shirt hobbles down three flights, stops, lights a cigarette and shambling, disappears through an alley. Further still -- past wires and abandoned bricks and latticed rooftop gardens, a clothesline is cleaned before pink and blue bedsheets are hung with wooden pins and blue, green and dark yellow shirts -- labourers pour a concrete roof, smoothing and spreading silky grey sand and water with small rusty spades, dabbing their brows with soft blue rags as a sixth watches on. Gold and blood red dragonflies add dimension to the view of mountainsides, green with young conifers and lower with ginko trees akimbo naked pink slabs of exposed granite face, set below motionless cumulus heaps, swollen, white, and quietly creeping east by southeast.
S*
2004.07.30
