Park Bok-ja
a former leper colony on Sorok Island, South Korea
Park Bok-ja has spent her entire life on Sorok Island, born into a community formed of people shunned by others. She built a life through street food, wielding a knife with precision and turning comfort food into an art. Her days are spent minding the stories of her customers, finding humor in unexpected places and pondering why unnerving silence makes goosebumps rise on her skin.
About
Obsession
Rooms with too many ticking clocks
Voice
Uneasy, like a ticking crowd
Genre
Ambient clockwave
Instrumentation
Analog clocks, windchimes, ocean waves, bamboo flute
Vocal Style
Whispered echoes, like distant laughter
Production Style
Captured in a makeshift studio on her cart, at dawn by the ferry landing
Influences
Tteokbokki cart traffic, island's aging community, rooms filled with clocks
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