Bovey LEE, paper cut artist
I found this artist,Boney Lee, in Art basel Hongkong 2018. My cut paper explores the tension and contradiction between our obsession with urbanism and desire for nature . Despite the fact that we often turn to nature when we crave serenity and balance, we have a competing penchant for overdeveloping land and building new structures, diminishing our opportunity to actually experience the peaceful retreat that we crave. My work reflects on what we do to the environment with our super machines and technologies and what nature does back to us in reaction. I am drawn to nature as a modern fantasy – a thing that we have become so removed from that it exists almost in a dreamlike space, apart from our everyday experience. I am intrigued by this remove, how it leads us to disconnect our actions from their effects, and the consequential ripple effect that has on the natural habitat. I create all of my works on xuan (rice) paper, which reflects my Chinese heritage and my ear...