生态剪纸艺术 | Bovey Lee 的环保探索

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令人惊叹的剪纸，来自现居美国的华人女性艺术家Bovey Lee。

叙事性的剪纸在电力、奉献和生存的背景下探索人类与环境之间的关系。这三个“激励因子”促发了我们的所有欲望、决定着我们对待他人及环境的行为。我们生活在一个过渡依赖科技、过渡城市化和过渡消费的时代。我的近期作品反映了21世纪人类与自然之间岌岌可危的关系，如我们的超级机器和科技对环境产生了怎样的影响，而自然又做出了何种回应。

▼繁茂的草地 Outgrow grass

My narrative-based cut paper explores the tension between man and the environment in the context of power, sacrifice, and survival. These three “motivators,” as I call them, drive all our desires and behaviors toward one another and the environment. We live in a time when we overdo everything from technology to urbanization to consumption. My recent work is informed by our precarious relationship with nature in the twenty-first century, i.e., what we do to the environment with our super machines and technologies and what nature does back to us in reaction.

每一件作品都是由一张带有丝绸衬里的中国宣纸制作而成的。宣纸和丝绸都是可回收利用的环保材料。所用的工具也十分简单，有裁切垫、美工刀和刀片、订书钉、夹子和书镇。

I hand cut each work on a single sheet of Chinese xuan (rice) paper backed with silk and both are renewable and eco-friendly materials. The tools I use are simple: cutting mat, X-acto knife and blades, staples, clips, and paperweights.

在正式手工剪裁之前，我会在电脑和软件上绘制图案。然后打印出数字图片，并参照这些图片进行剪裁。剪裁时，我不会使用任何标尺和模板，而是随心地将这些影像图片在纸张上翻译成或虚或实的图案。

Before the final hand cutting process, I compose the images using the computer and software. And then, I print out the digital images and use them to cut with. The images are photographic and I translate them into patterns of solid and void, while cutting free hand without any rulers or stencils.

我的工作更像是用刀片作画，这得益于我学习中国书法和铅笔画的经历。剪纸是我对即时性、细节和微妙因子最本质、最真实的反映。剪纸艺术让我身心愉悦，同时又能让我放缓脚步、理清思路，清晰而坚定地思考。

My work is like drawing with a knife and is rooted in my study of Chinese calligraphy and pencil drawing. Cutting paper is a visceral reaction and natural response to my affection for immediacy, detail, and subtlety. The physical and mental demand from cutting is extreme and thrilling, slows me down and allows me to think clearly and decisively.

▼稻穗 Rice grains

▼大豆 Soybean

▼野花 Wildflowers

▼公共设施 Public facilities

About Bovey Lee:

“ I am a cut paper artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Born in Hong Kong and practicing  Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten, I studied painting and drawing in my formative years and completed my BA degree in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In 1993, I came to the United States as a painter and earned my first Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Subsequently, I earned a second MFA in computer graphics and interactive media at Pratt Institute in New York. In 2000, I relocated to Pittsburgh where I created my first cut paper work in summer 2005.

Exhibitions include Nevada Museum of Art; Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, Washington; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Shelburne Museum, Vermont; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK; Blackburn Museum, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands; among others.

Over a dozen books featuring my cut paper include Paper Secrets (Hightone, Guangzhou); Paper Play (Sandu, Guangzhou); Freehand (Chronicle Book, San Francisco); 500 Paper Objects (Lark Crafts,  Asheville); Art of Paper (Monsa, Barcelona); Paradise of Paper Art (Designerbooks, Beijing); Material World (Virgin Books, London); Paper Works (Sandu, Guangzhou); Push Paper (Lark Books, New York);  l’art de la decoupe (Editions Alternatives, Paris); The New Encyclopedia of Origami and Papercraft  Techniques (Quarto, London); and High Touch, Illusive 3, Papercraft 2, and Papercraft (Gestalten, Berlin).

Institutional collections include the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University, UK; BNY Mellon Corporate Art Collection; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fidelity Corporate Art Collection; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California; and Progressive Corporate Art Collection.

Commissions and editorials include The Washington Post; Panasonic; The New York Times Magazine;

Art@Government

Buildings, Hong Kong; Hugo Boss; Pacific Place, Hong Kong; F.P. Journe; and Annabelle Magazine, Switzerland.

Grotto Fine Art in Hong Kong; Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, California; and Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida  and Los Angeles, California represent my works. ”

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