ARTIST RESEARCH: Aimee Lee

• Aimee Lee works with paper manipulation, process and engineering, both using her Korean heritage and traditional paper making techniques.
• She makes and constructs paper, sculptures, installations and books.
• Lee often reconstructs and uses paper that she had made from hand, tearing the sheets and building them up, posing the challenge that come with the construction of paper, durability, fragility and transparency.

“I source materials and techniques from my Korean heritage, though my interest in plants, colors, and traditions derives from global fiber methods. Through artists’ books, I began to make paper and fell in love with the constant motion of water, the ecologically sound process of manufacture, and the variety of wild materials I could source” Aimeelee.net. 2021. About Aimee Lee | Aimee Lee. [online] Available at: <https://aimeelee.net/about/.

• Lee’s work has made me consciously aware of how I can use paper in construction, taking great care and interest in its origins and material state.
• By understanding why, where and how I source and make my paper from will inevitably create the depth and contextual knowledge that gives my work powerful meaning.
• taking inspiration from natural resources and using fibrous materials will allow for me to construct with the papers with heavy resemblance and inspiration from my location, geographically speaking.