HELEN LEE

Helen Lee examines the plasticity of language, juxtaposing those fluid edges against the crisp pink edges of the neon. Lee’s heritage as a 2nd generation Asian American drives her practice to explore the transformational qualities of language – exemplified by the tensions that naturally occur between spoken word, the written word (writ large) and idiomatic expression, the use of which has undertones of emerging subcultures spawning new meanings often social and political in nature. “I dwell in the transformational moments in which: breath becomes sound; sound becomes spoken; the spoken word is written; and the written word is shaped back into dimensional form by my own breath”.