Lee's beautiful artwork. Although I was not familiar with him as an
artist, I absolutely feel in love with his use of natural materials and
creative design, along with the sheer amount of effort it must
have taken for him to create his artwork. For example, take a look
at this bench:
It is hard to tell from the image, but in person you realize the surface
of the bench is made of nails he has hammered down into unusual
shapes. For one of the larger column structures, he actually shaped
the nails into all the letters of the alphabet!
An amazing installation:
Each log is individually numbered (on the bottom, out of sight) and
brought into the gallery separately, the artist then puts them in order
and decides how much of an arc the sculpture should have along
the floor.
Note: This photo is not from the opening last night, but the layout
was very similar.
Unfortunately I do not have my favorite sculpture/installation which
was along the back of the gallery wall. The artist took about 200 leaves
and rolled them up individually, tied them to each other one by one, and
created an entire leaf wall. At first, it seems as if he may have used paper
or some kind of fancy art material, but no, it was just dried leaves.
Honestly, this exhibition is not to be missed, especially since the
sculptures almost didn't make it to the gallery on the account of the snow
we had last week. But it all arrived safely, phew!
