먹의 시간, Zeit der Muk, is a series of ink drawings of birds that came out of spending time with and observing birds during the time of transition after moving to Berlin.

Zeit der Muk

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Zeit der Muk is simultaneously instantaneous and permanent.

Instantaneous

like a songbird taking off a tree branch at my footstep at Debs Park

like a glance of a robin from a shadowy part of Lietzenseepark

like a Black Kite swooping down to break the surface of Lac Leman

But It is permeant because it is the same force of life that moved an artist to chisel out a passerine form from a slowly heated bone 13,500 years ago in Henan, China, that attracts me to hooded vultures in Berlin zoo in 2023. And it will be the same force of life that will call out to another artist living at a corner of the earth ten thousands years from now.

-an exerpt from a poem by the artist under the same title. The rest of the poem can be found here.