200816-memo

Landscapes Invisible is made up of two parts, the first one, which is a fact-fiction in the form of an epistolary novel and the other, a collection of the writer’s personal essays on traveling. The former is composed based on the latter. As a peach in the painting is an artistic work, not a real one, so this is a literary work, not a non-fiction documentary. Landscapes Invisible will remind of remote and dim landscapes, inside and outside, visible and invisible, of a painting exhibition

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주기적인 좌절과 어둠 속의 긴 고뇌,

그리고 그 사이 사이 찾아오는 짧은 반짝임의 감미로운 안식-

글의 흐름은 이러할 것이다.

Let me taste beauty and sorrow.

why this way for me, and not that one?

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Dear J,

The book looks wonderful! I can understand why you feel exhausted and sad. I feel sad reading much of it, too. It’s not easy to read in many ways but it is truth, raw, not always pleasing.... life.

I feel honored to have been your gateway to Flamenco though I don’t consider myself worthy. I feel sad for all the pain and disappointment I caused.

I am grateful for your compassion and forgiveness. Mental challenges are the hidden battles and scars of our society. How many suffer in silence, putting on a happy face. Perhaps the only way to convey my anguish was through flamenco because no one believed it otherwise. I do not know.

I hope you are so proud of this work!!

Jaden will be, too.

Love,

Lra