“Combing the sea, combing peace” was created on the beaches of Korea's West, South, and East Seas. A family of eight gathers and searches everywhere they can.
The sea, which has a deep relationship with the land and a beautiful face of many lights....... At the end of that ocean, we find trash scattered like the Milky Way. The trash found in the cosmos of the beach is like a giant shadow world of human trash that has flowed from the land to the sea.

“Combing the sea” is also a ‘peace painting’ that draws solidarity in the sand. I used to talk to children about different news from different parts of the world, and we would make up games about how we could send our hearts to the people in the news.

When we go to the beach, we collect trash from morning until sunset, setting the stage for other worlds that are connected to our own. As the wind blew, the story would blow in and out, completing the picture. I find the children huddled in the arms of the sea mama and tell them who the main character is going to be today, and they run off to make themselves up, while I climb up the ladder and grab my camera.

We all gather around and start playing, cheering on the other 'you'. Even the children are enchanted, for this moment at least, by the other 'breath' and the loving gesture of wanting to connect. Eventually, the once useful but discarded things meet the protagonist who still wants to be liberated, and the 'love picture' is complete.

In our world, where nature and community are destroyed and stolen, disasters and catastrophes strike, hatred and incitement are unleashed, tragedies and massacres occur, all we can do is mourn, stand in solidarity, resist, reconcile, and love, believing from the bottom of our hearts that these gestures are the way to peace.

Afterwards, it's often dusk or a dark sea, and we gather the trash we've worked on into large sacks and tie them up well for the village to collect. We usually use large sacks (one-ton bag) because thin sacks can easily break apart in the sea breeze and strong sunlight and blow back to the sea, and there is a lot of bulky trash. Although the town collects trash seasonally, it is said that ocean thrash is still difficult to recycle or landfill due to its saltiness, so it is mainly piled up or 'burned', which puts a lot of burden on nature and people.