Jacqueline Rush Lee- 4/18/15

Jacqueline Rush Lee is a Hawaiian book artist. We went over her in class, and I found a lot of her pieces beautifully disastrous. When we first started going over book idea projects I was initially very nervous and apprehensive. I love books and the idea of tearing them up and stripping them naked made me very upset. However, after the process of my own project started I realized there were many things you could make out of books. Lee has very many different takes on book projects, and is considered a book pioneer in this day in age. As she has worked with demolishing and beautifying books for 17 years she has the art down. My favorite sculptures of her remain the warped, wet looking books. They take on a look as if the book has gone through a literal hurricane, but its still a book and maybe even readable. I really enjoyed the book project, and this summer want to immolate a couple of her works and see if it is doable.