“When I was in Jeju I found a road sign of the memorial stone of the 'April 3 Incident' pointing to a place where there was no road in the forest next to the farming field.”

<Why blood is red?> is an abstract expression of the emotional landscape made near the sites of the ‘April 3 Incident’ in Jeju Island from controlling the time & camera movement. The work examines phenomenological concept of photography in terms of existence, absence, and reality. The Jeju ‘April 3 Incident’, which occurred during the US military rule was a tragic event with the second most severe loss of life after the Korean War in Korean modern history. It is estimated that an 1/10 of Jeju residences between 25,000 & 30,000 have been killed by the Government Punitive Force & the Communist Partizan both. The official death toll of massacred civilians is 14,532.

Special thanks to the team at Revela’T & Jongman Lee.