JongKyeong
Lee
Juried Artist Member (JAM)
Location
Gyeonggi-do
South Korea
Region
Artist Statement
I chose organza as my primary material to visualize the moment light shifts into color and the sensations that change with the viewer’s angle and distance. Thin yet durable, organza transmits light, and as light passes through it, colors overlap and transform. This quality resembles the way I experience time and memory.
Grounded in quilting traditions of piecing and layering, I use a soldering iron—rather than needle, thread, or a sewing machine—to cut and fuse organza. The resulting fused lines are extremely thin and transparent, functioning more like fluid boundaries than seams. Depending on the direction and intensity of light, these boundaries appear or disappear, and color changes in depth and density according to the thickness of overlapping layers.
In my work, light is not simply illumination but a compositional force that rearranges color and generates or erases form. As viewers move, the work is continually reconfigured, and the surface is never fixed in a single state.
Grounded in quilting traditions of piecing and layering, I use a soldering iron—rather than needle, thread, or a sewing machine—to cut and fuse organza. The resulting fused lines are extremely thin and transparent, functioning more like fluid boundaries than seams. Depending on the direction and intensity of light, these boundaries appear or disappear, and color changes in depth and density according to the thickness of overlapping layers.
In my work, light is not simply illumination but a compositional force that rearranges color and generates or erases form. As viewers move, the work is continually reconfigured, and the surface is never fixed in a single state.
