We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.
Kim HyesoonMy tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.
Kim HyesoonOur mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.
Kim HyesoonWomen in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
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