Kim Hee Kyung
South Korea
Bloom No. 118 (2017)
Hanji Paper and pigment
4 7 x 4 7 x 4 inches
“My series of ‘Bloom,’ which began in 2009, features paper works using traditional Korean Hanji paper. It is known that the life expectancy of Hanji is a thousand years and its formative variability is unlimited because of its soft but strong quality of material. The image of the flower, which is the symbol of natural beauty, is expressed as a relief with Hanji paper giving it physical property. I put the meaning on what the flower is, a marvelous living thing which has a creative energy to carry a new life as a plant’s womb. Furthermore, the goal of my Hanji work is to express wide, deep, and unlimited natural vitality in ‘Bloom,’ not to simply express beautiful figures of flowers.”
-Kim Hee Kyung