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34 | March/April 2015 and see different things in the great swoops of color that appear al- most like great ballets of stained glass, or the intricate ink twinings of her work. "She challenges herself and has faith in herself," said Parks. "She's a searcher." Memory as action "I believe in what I see and experience, piece by piece," said Kim, explaining some of the philosophy behind her work. She believes that people see only a fragment of things, not necessarily know- ing everything that happens as a whole, but rather in the context of their own pieces. "We try to put them together, and that's life." Kim explains that memory is similar to this experience and of- fered an anecdote to illustrate. She and her sister were sharing a memory about an event that happened in Korea. Her memory, she said, was one piece, but her sister, in remembering the same thing, remembered it slightly differently. at is a different piece. Togeth- er, each of these pieces contributed to that memory. In much the same way, Kim does not have all the pieces of her work sketched out beforehand. When she works, she is not making a decision to paint, as much as letting things happen, she explained. One of her challenges involved the creation of a work that eventually measured 30 feet long and five feet in height. "I didn't know what it was going to be," said Kim. "It excited me." At the time she was working in a tiny Brook- lyn apartment and could only work on the piece one four-foot section at a time. For more than a year, she worked with an ink pen, covering each section with an intricate Mison Kim's exhibit, "Searching for the Real," which opened February 13 at David McCune International Art Gallery, Methodist University, runs until April 15.

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