Blue graphite and oil stick on canvas. By adhering to the practice

By adhering to the practice of applying only one layer per day

paperback book covers and media that permeated mid-century popular culture

and was conceived using a similar process: many layers of encaustic are applied

a deciduous shrub in New York City

Lee personally handwrote the names of the colors on the side of the canvas

Blue graphite and oil stick on canvas. By adhering to the practiceThis work is part of a series titled "Flatland" paintings. They are works that consist of seemingly random squares on a painted surface that reflect the three dimensional world beyond the paintings immediate environment. The squares themselves are fashioned by a process of finding regular squares within the fluid lines of a freehand grid that run through the textured paintwork. If chance allows four lines to intersect to create a square, the oil paint