Elisa Shua Dusapin

He sounded different, further away, a distant echo from a body left on the other side of the world.

Eventually he stopped in front of a display of leather helmets and asked me to translate a sign.

It gave a summary of the conflict between the two Koreas that began in 1950, the North supported by the Soviets and China, the South by the US and the United Nations, the signing of the armistice on 27 July 1953 and the creation of this frontier on the 38th parallel, the world’s most heavily militarised border, in the midst of a no man’s land four kilometres wide and 238 kilometres in length. In the course of those three years, two to four millions deaths, both civilian and military. No peace treaty had ever been signed.

What matters is the light. It shapes what you see