Seoul: Buildings

I should have been an architect. I could have been an architect. After all my father builds houses (he draws lines, this way and that way, and for some reason they join up or intersect to become a home). So I think I got that from him, this attraction towards buildings, although sometimes I think it's the people inside the buildings that i am interested in.

From a young age I learnt to look through the windows of other people's homes or at the lights that radiated from within the apartments of a HDB block. It always left me feeling an inexplicable sense of pathos. Yes, pathos, at the age of 8 or so. I remember wanting to be a documenter of their lives, because it struck me, even then, that we can only understand or grasp at the truth as an outsider.

And even then we can never get to the center of it all.