DMZ Peace Bell

The wall has always been experienced only as what lies before us. Our imaginations always halted before it. We could not see the rear side of the wall, nor imagine the space beyond it, between the two walls. To cross a wall, we must be able to see it from above, and to break the wall we must know what it is made of. The remains of a barbed wire fence that was demolished from the DMZ were melted to form a bell, and what was previously a watchtower becomes a bell tower. From the peak, where the bunkers used to be, the sound of the bell would spread far beyond the border of the North and South. The barbed wire that once separated a people now makes a sound that brings them together. A space of tension and hostility towards the enemy becomes the point of origin for a message of peace and recovery.” —Notes from the artist