A 2.7m high, 17m long mural embracing the history of the people and the people of history.

Picture book author Kim Young-hwa visited this place, which was originally an open space covered with reeds and shrubs, but has become a dense forest over time.
And I drew the story of the forest's present and past.
For seven months, from the winter of 2023 to the early summer of 2024, the artist went on dozens of field trips and returned to his studio, where he pasted warm Korean paper on three walls and climbed up and down ladders for 16 hours a day, drawing hundreds of thousands of lines with only a single fine-tip brush.
After wearing out 130 brush pens, I completed a mural measuring 2.7 meters high and 17 meters long.

A 4.2-meter, 27-panel folding screen depicts a field of lush greenery, presenting today's landscape and stories from 77 years ago.

This book is a picture book in the form of a folding screen containing the picture and the story.
The front of the folding screen contains the time from winter to early summer in the forest today, from left to right, in one space, and the back tells the story of the people who took refuge there from winter to early summer during the April 3 Incident and of those who perished at the end of the struggle, in chronological order.
Today's fields, transformed into lush forests, are covered in snow, the snow melts away with the azaleas, the sturdy azalea trees sprout spring leaves, and the white blossoms fall, creating a breathtakingly beautiful natural scene.
In it, crows with divine eyes, as if remembering a sad story from long ago, greet the painter who visits them from time to time.

The fields of the past, where reeds and shrubs grow, are the site of a history of hardships and upheavals for those who once lived there.
The author does not subjectively interpret that painful history.
By simply transcribing the testimonies of those who visited that place - refugees, armed forces, and punitive forces - we are providing readers with space for interpretation.

The past and present, and the time and space of the dead and the living, connected by memories and records

This book is divided into a front page containing the present and a back page containing the past.
The stories on the front and back, starting from each cover, are connected by the footprints of those who perished there and the footprints of the author who visited that place, expressing the author's will not to separate them from those of the past and us of today.
This is because, in order for our history to take steps toward peace and coexistence, the past must be able to help the present, and the dead must be able to save the living, and the prerequisite for this is ‘memory and records.’