[Omyo Cho - Amour Aquatique]
In An Unwritten Song (Our Story Is Not Carved in Stone) (2026), Omyo Cho imagines a sentient being that lives and sings beneath the surface of water. Leaving no mark upon its surroundings, its presence is sensed only in the ripples of passing; their song, carried through vibration, exists momentarily before dissolving into silence.
Composed of marbled glass that resembles solidified water, the work inhabits a poetic tension between flow and fixity. Its shifting strata trace the instant when motion becomes form, as though fluid briefly remembers its own motion before returning to drift. The title gestures toward a philosophy of impermanence and renewal. Whereas human history depends on acts of inscription—on stone, on metal, on data—Cho’s imagined being resists this need for lasting record. A story not carved in a solid form remains open, mutable, and alive; it belongs to no single author but to the currents of time and collective becoming.
The marbled patterns within the glass evoke both interior and exterior—veins of blood, ocean currents, atmospheric drift—where body and world synchronise into an inseparable and continuous choreography. The sculpture captures not a finite form but a condition of being: existence sustained through change rather than endurance. Its song cannot be heard, only sensed—transmitted through light, gaze, and the slow resonance of time. The work invites stillness, yet nothing here is static: it stands as a meditation on life as shifting form—a hymn to what remains unwritten, yet endlessly felt.
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OMYO CHO
An Unwritten Song (Our Story Is Not Carved in Stone)
2026
Glass, aluminium, nickel-plated brass
90 x 20 x 10 cm | 35.4 x 7.9 x 3.9 in
Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of PODIUM, Hong Kong.
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