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Bang Hai Ja’s painting blends influences from her artistic training in Korea with Western gestural abstraction, which she discovered in Paris in 1961. By merging these two traditions, she developed a technique of absorbing pigmented, transparent washes on both the front and back of traditional hanji paper. Her works then incorporate layers and crumpling gestures on canvas, as seen in this landscape, designed as a “very low relief.” The artist thus transforms painting into a space of mediation between the Earth and the Sky, where light reveals itself.