
We can encounter singing clay dolls everywhere at Toam Ceramic Park.
Toam Seo Taweon, whose pen name is Toam, made all of them. We call a clay doll ‘Tou’.
He describes his Tous like this.
“I don’t want to hear, so I have no ears.
I don’t want to think so I have an empty head.
I will just sing a song. “
He was diagnosed with cancer in 1997. He rejected treatment and surgery, but fights against cancer in his own way, making these Tous. He expressesd his mind through the singing Tous with no-mind Tous without ears, empty Tous.
I found a green smiling Tou among them. It has stood on the same spot for a long time, and has become part of nature. Its face is covered by green moss. It still sings with a green smile.

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