BORNO STATE, NIGERIA — Flying into Monguno, a recently «liberated» town in a forgotten corner of a forgotten state in northeastern Nigeria, all you can see is a vast
expanse of nothingness.
Among the very large works are BK - 002 (2006), image above, BL - 060 (2005), a twelve - foot wide blue ballpoint pen work on canvas that suggests the solid mass
of a hill suspended above or dissolving into
nothingness, and BL - 071 (2005), a similarly massive work that offers up another motif common to Lee's works on canvas and paper — a field
of seemingly vibrating forms appears out
of an
expanse of markings.