Still Building, Today Too
This series · Back at the Bench · No. 3 (8 episodes total) Ongoing
"Writing down the thoughts that come while I build."
- No. 1 The Work of Pyeongmok
- No. 2 Buddha's Palm
- No. 3 Still Building, Today Too
- No. 4 Keep Changing the Form, and the Difference Gets Buried in Noise
- No. 5 Before the Saw's Path Sets
- No. 6 Afraid I'm Thinking to Fit My Own Skill
- No. 7 The Palm Is an Eye, Too
- No. 8 A Sense Doesn't Cross Over by Explanation
Originally written in Korean and translated into English with the help of AI. Read the original
Still building, today too.
By day, I do carpentry.
Chiseling and sawing to build lattice,
working out joints and fittings.
By night, I rub my eyes and code.
I move onto the screen what my hands did by day.
I've been building a program for two months now — one that draws changho, calculates dimensions, and produces a design that can actually be built.
Since it's a design tool built by someone who's actually joined wood by hand,
I know exactly how a single line on screen will stand once it's real wood.
And in between, I write.
Why changho ended up looking the way they do,
what structure and meaning a single piece of lattice holds —
standing at the workbench, I write down what I've learned about these with my body.
Carpenter, programmer, writer. It looks like three different jobs,
but really, it's the same work.
Building with wood,
building with code,
building with sentences.
Still building, today too.
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