At the height of COVID-19, the erotic sculpture park on Modo Island is nearly empty, like the nearby Incheon Airport, which is South Korea’s largest. In Modo Island, the main characters are made with stone. They are trapped within themselves, in a world that is also trapped within an ocean. The confinement of the island world is paralleled and contrasted by the nearby presence of the airport, normally a symbol of escape and flight, that is also suffering isolation due to the pandemic. I visited the island on a sunny day wearing a mask, observing the seagulls and the occasional planes in the sky, which were also probably half-empty. The sculptures seemed so beautiful; despite their irrevocable confinement, their forms still showed a perpetual longing toward the openness of the sea.