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Maia Ruth Lee: Hold Shimmer Wind
In periods of trouble, we move, as if blinded, through populated fields of unknowns. At the seeing-borders of being human, we witness, red, blue, blue, blue, blue, green, yellow, blue arrival as if these signifiers of real physical embodiments: the sun, ocean, sky, the ever witnessing trees, are the trail marks to some distant shore we can escape to. It is an ancient pain, to sever and quarter the luscious color fields of the natural world with inky human progress. Our existence belies unnatural borders. Borders between kin. Borders between violence, and disaster. Borders, a malingering ink blotch we write as natural human history.
Maia Ruth Lee鈥檚 creations trouble these borders within and without. Unbound canvases, flag like, summon the ghostly promise, and illusion of nationhood. An enormous bondage sculpture suspends its mass, looming, like cloud-disaster, above us. A blank canvas, all potential, diminishes into patterns, shaping and inscribing into the natural world, a recognizable statecraft.
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In periods of trouble, we move, as if blinded, through populated fields of unknowns. At the seeing-borders of being human, we witness, red, blue, blue, blue, blue, green, yellow, blue arrival as if these signifiers of real physical embodiments: the sun, ocean, sky, the ever witnessing trees, are the trail marks to some distant shore we can escape to. It is an ancient pain, to sever and quarter the luscious color fields of the natural world with inky human progress. Our existence belies unnatural borders. Borders between kin. Borders between violence, and disaster. Borders, a malingering ink blotch we write as natural human history.
Maia Ruth Lee鈥檚 creations trouble these borders within and without. Unbound canvases, flag like, summon the ghostly promise, and illusion of nationhood. An enormous bondage sculpture suspends its mass, looming, like cloud-disaster, above us. A blank canvas, all potential, diminishes into patterns, shaping and inscribing into the natural world, a recognizable statecraft.
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Mirroring the work of her linguist parents, Lee crafts a visual language to communicate her diasporic experience with tension and tenderness.
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