Ilhwa Kim's work 'Seed_universe 天下圖' is composed of tens of thousands of seed units. Each seed unit has the combination of straight lines and circles, which compose a tiny single universe in her own physical terms.
The materials are not given, but created personally for the each single universe. Kim dyes each sheet of paper by hand with thousands of different colors and cuts and rolls the layers of paper to make it rigid. Not a single universe has the same shape, look, color in her work.
When tens of thousands of universes take shape of the whole universe, a single work completed, the sense of completion never comes in full and each perception betrays previous ones. The surface and sense of the work keep changing from morning to night all day long; endless up and down waves by her 'paper seed' units, bold and dense juxtaposition of hand dyed colors, and very mild reflection between 'Hanji' paper units.
Kim's 'Seed universe' was originally inspired by anonymous world map 'Cheonhado(天下圖)' at the time of no surveying and no aerial view, during 17-18c Joseon dynasty. It was an imaginative view of world order at that time as well.
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