Jody Lee

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<!--StartFragment-->I make sculpture, drawing and photography. My current body of work is called Tripe Prelude. In it I use varnish and graphite covered tripe (stomach lining) as in intermediate tool to realize an impress of my body.

My process is to trace a heavy graphite line around myself onto paper. I cut a template out of that skewed figure-shape, trace it on another large piece of paper, and bring topographic volume to the image by imprinting it with the tripe. This way of drawing creates volume without line or depiction. It circumvents the eye and creates artifacts of a direct but unpredictable relationship between myself, my body, and space. My work asks how we locate ourselves and whether we're convinced by what is there. It does not privilege the skin, rather it moves through the skin to create image via touch in the broadest sense. Tripe Prelude began because I wanted to line my studio like a stomach, to link it to the city in a way that made sense, to make it more like myself. That (sculptural) idea led to other work such as Morsel: A Stomach for Your Head, models of the studio lined, large-scale works on paper, and photography. My photography documents succinctly what goes on in the studio, and expresses my ideas in a performance-shorthand.

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