bottles of memory

Yoo Sangah takes up photography after Kim Dokja wakes up.After receiving the call, she had rushed into the hospital room to see Kim Dokja sitting up, uncertain but alive. In the soft glow of the setting sun, he looked hazily incandescent. Everyone had gathered around him, reaching towards him like flowers turning to the sun. It had felt like finally drawing in and letting go of a breath all at once, and Yoo Sangah couldn’t stop looking.Days after the tears and the reunions, the memory of the moment began to feel unreal in Yoo Sangah's mind, suspended in a sense of both timelessness and transience. She imagined the delicate memory slipping away, and her heart ached. There was a fragility to this new happiness that made its loss feel hauntingly possible. After Kim Dokja moved into their new house, Yoo Sangah made a decision. The next day, she went to buy a camera.