About ghost

As I drove down the highway at dawn, my gaze lingered on the mountain ridge. The sky, tinged with a bluish hue, and the pitch-black mountains did not appear three-dimensional but rather flat. At that moment, an experimental piece of music began playing from a playlist that had initially started with traditional Korean music, now shaped by an algorithm into an eerie, elongated string sound. The atmosphere grew more unsettling. What if, in that ink-black mountain, ghosts were densely gathered, silently watching me?

The darkness rendered the mountain into a flattened image, leaving me alone to confront it. The thought of being alone allowed me to feel fear. That fear made me sense the presence of beings from another dimension. And in that realization, I was no longer alone.

It is only when alone (that is to say, in the presence of someone) that the infant can discover his own personal life.
— Donald W. Winnicott
ⓒ 2025 Geunbae Yang