Sammy Lee

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I keep my hands busy in water, soaking, kneading, and pounding layers of papers to create a skin-like substrate. Preparing paper-skin is a laborious and cathartic process; time and effort transform fragile and delicate into resilient and tough, yet luminous. My Paper-skins take the shape of familiar objects to create new artwork and meaning. Typically these works question socio-cultural issues surrounding a sense of belonging, home, the foreign body, cross-cultural psychology, and immigration.