Here, Jukhee Kwon makes use of jong-i jeobogi, a Korean paper-folding technique that, like Japanese origami, is based on Chinese traditional practices of making ritual paper objects (ZheZhi), including paper boxes for storing herbs and spices. Paper was an ancient Chinese technology developed, around 100 AD, during the Han Dynasty, and later transmitted to Korea and Japan. Using pages taken from a dictionary, Kwon has created 10,000 meticulously wrapped, individual 'envelopes' into each of which she has 'planted' a fennel seed. Each 'envelope' measures exactly one square centimetre, so when ranged in 100 ranks of 100 envelopes per file, the resulting shape defines a uniform ground of exactly one square metre. The subtle implication is that the seeds will grow into plants that will produce more fibrous material that can then be made into paper, which will be used in the dissemination of more knowledge. When a book is no longer useful it will be recycled, once more becoming the ground from which newly planted seeds will again emerge, thereby completing the cycle. Wonderful chance lightning effects stand out as the individual seeds' irregularities contrast with the uniformity of the folded paper packets.
Kwon specifically chose paper pages from a dictionary to indicate a book of words whose number is forever growing, as new words are added to the language and archaic words pass out of common usage. In this way, understanding itself is constantly growing and developing, and the transmission of human knowledge through books constitutes an endless cycle. In oriental numerology, the number 10,000 is associated with the idea of endlessness or infinity. Thus offering up 10,000 prayers will ensure success in one's endeavours and, in Japan, presenting 10,000 paper cranes to someone who is sick, will ensure their complete recovery.