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"I know that when I build an exhibition or a painting, there are many times when there’s a shift, and I always tend to move almost toward destruction... So you may ask: do I need to hurry, or should I take my time? Well, that's just it: you must do both."

Minjung Kim pursues an art of astonishing restraint. Brushing thin layers of watercolor onto hanji, the traditional Korean paper made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree, she builds luminous, cloudlike mountains.