Two months have passed since my journey to Korea. Life gets the better of us. In that time, not much has changed. Though we experience time linearly, in a lot of ways things have stayed more or less the same. There are no more snowy days, and daylight savings have given us more time in…

The essay I wrote 3 years ago (as described in part 1 of this series) was paired with a series of photographs. They were selected from my photo album containing thousands of images and combined to create a seemingly real, yet entirely imagined, impossible landscape. That the connection to a place is so dependent on…

Chaos reigns the day before the lunar new year. We are in Yongin, a satellite city of Seoul. We are on the 14th floor apartment of one of so many uninspired residential complexes, currently owned by my eldest uncle’s family. It is a four bedroom with a spacious living room that could accommodate the growing…

Three years ago, I wrote an essay for a class called “Culture and Society”, in which I described the last time I visited Korea. At the time, the trip was significant for a number of reasons: for one, I had known that my grandparents’ health was declining, and my uncle had passed away a year…