PIAN:
The Other Shore

(in production)

Inspired by photographer Kim Yongho’s PIAN series, which captures the symbolic beauty of the lotus, this immersive 10-minute timeline experience reimagines his work in a new dimension.

Visitors are invited into the pond itself, viewing the world from the eye level of a frog beneath the lotus leaves. This dramatic shift in scale offers a rare and humbling perspective—transforming the viewer into a small lifeform gazing up at the vast, swaying foliage above.

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“PIAN,” meaning “the other shore,” is a term often used in religious and philosophical contexts to refer to a transcendent realm—an ideal state one reaches after awakening to truth, a place beyond the secular world.

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I am lying beneath the water.
Am I asleep?
Or have I died?
There is no sound, but my mind is clear.
Between the lotus leaves swaying in the gentle breeze,
a faint song begins to emerge.
I am at peace, submerged in rippling water.
Alive, I see the world I inhabit—
from another world.
I dream of PIAN,
the other shore—
a vision I have long yearned for.
The one who sees is me,
and the one being seen is also me.
From the other world,
I watch myself.
— Kim Yongho