Bovey Lee

Bovey Lee is an artist from Hong Kong, but is now residing in Philadelphia. Lee creates extremely intricate paper cuts on rice paper. All of her work is made entirely from hand with an X-Acto knife. She does not use any lasers or cutting machines. Lee combines drawings, paintings, and digital media in her art work. None of her art pieces include color, just shadow and adding depth into the 2-dimensional picture, giving off a 3-dimensional picture.

This piece is called The Bird That Thinks It’s A Plane.  It is entirely made from paper.  On the right, shows a close up view of the art piece, with the main focal point easy to see. Lee shows a brid, flying in front of a fence, with a shadow of a plane, hence the title. The bird thinks itself as a plane, being big and mighty, flying high in the sky, going where it wants. Even though it is only a 2 dimensional art piece, it looks like the objects are popping out of the picture.

This art piece is called Little Crimes. Lee tries to show the crimes happening in everyday life, but then again trying to relate the pictures to ancient chinese folk art. She uses uses these pictures to relate to our lives in America. Notice how her art pieces both have a fence within the picture, where it is behind or in front of the main focal points, which shows her views on everything happening throughout life. Imagine the hard work and precision you need to make this type of art work. You must have a lot of patience and concentration to make a such detailed paper cut-out. 


















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