The slow and deliberate mark-making process constitutes a record of the artist’s bodily movements. Short, hooked marks with blurred edges are applied methodically to plain paper. Their slight variation within the grid is rhythmic, almost musical. By using minimal gestures to occupy and transform space, Lee applies the concept of blank-leaving (liu bai), a Chinese aesthetic principle where areas are intentionally left untouched, adapting it into his own visual language of minimalism.

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo: Maurice Aeschimann, Geneva