Invisible Souls in Necropolis

Heo Eunae

Looking at the tombstone, we could feel that countless people were alive. However, in terms of time, there are some people who have survived, but there are people who do not. However, by death, people can be placed in the same space that transcends time and space and appeal their existence to people who are currently alive. After the body leaves Earth, it turns into a spiritual realm. People who have lived actively in the city leave their own footsteps throughout their lives, leave social networks with precious people, and leave their families and descendants behind. People who stay here once leave their traces behind. While we are alive, we live indirectly in our own lives in the city, but we can be seen as being placed in one place through death and forming another community to create a social community and a city.

This goes further with the tombstones of the tomb that form the necropolis, and the repeated tombstones create another community. In many religions, even if the body is over, we are spiritual beings, so our spirit is invisible, but maybe we are forming another community? A place where visible tombstone and invisible spirits are gathered. That's where the necropolis.

One tombstone appears to be marking its own territory like numerous houses seen in the necropolis. The tombstone, which is erected on the space where the body is asleep, seems to be a custom of leaving one's personal domain even after death, and it seems to be no different from a single building. Just as they gather to form a city, tombs gather to form another community. This is the world of the body, and we do not know the world of the soul. If our basic inclination is to form a community, wouldn't it be the same in the spirit world?

At night, we feel the difference more wisely. There is no light in the tomb where the dead are, but the city where we live is shining brightly.

We can live and move by being alive, illuminate buildings and look at our families.

However, the tomb is quiet, silent, and dark. We can feel the evidence that our lives are alive.