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The artworks from the late 1980s to early 1990s, a critical turning point in the artist’s career, are often referred to as zigzag Ecriture. The artist started using hanji, Korean traditional paper, more actively for his paintings after thorough experiments of the material. He begins with attaching patches made up of small pieces of layered hanji onto the canvas and keeps drawing lines with a pencil while the surface of the canvas is still wet. The interaction between hanji and the pencil leaves marks or traces of the journey on the canvas made by the pencil. During this process, hanji gets manipulated or torn by the movement of the pencil. The small pieces of hanji permeate into the canvas in all directions in the form of irregular pattern or regular pattern with rhythm. In the 1990s, the artist began to use a variety of different colours such as purple, yellow and red. “There are flowers with undefinable colours that are neither purple nor pink. I buy those flowers whenever I come across them at flower shops. In this work, I expressed the feelings I felt while admiring the small flower pot on the table,” the artist said about the colours of this work.