Kwang Young Chun: (b. 1944) studied at Hong-Ik University in Korea and received his MFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. Prior to 1995, when the artist began working with mulberry paper, he painted in a manner influenced by American and European Abstract Expressionism. Chun has been named Artist of the Year by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and was awarded the Presidential Prize in the 41st Korean Culture and Art Prize by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. In 2014, Chun authored Mulberry Mindscapes, a monograph articulating the breadth and diversity of his half-century-long artistic career. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, and the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, among others. He lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. At the beginning of his career, Chun was working primarily in earth tones before he started experimenting with bright colors. Aggregation 02-N119, 2002 is one of the rare examples of that, features pages from primary school textbooks, some predating the Korean War. Dyed with natural ingredients such as gardenia seeds and teas, these textbooks commemorate a period of educational humanism in Korea.