Somang Lee

Somang Lee uses paper cutouts and lightbox to create her illuminated illustrations. Her work extends into performance art as well where she uses shadow puppetry and technology to create live projections. At a first glance, the aesthetics of her work is quite different to my own, but I am inspired by her subject matter and formation of collections. I really like the idea of grouping together similar artefacts so you can see how they share shapes and textures yet are all individual. Her work is predominantly based around nature and I can imagine these images working as spot images in an editorial setting, as a poster, in a book, in a museum, as prints, or even in advertising. 

Another factor that drew me to her work is colour. The colours are realistic and all work together really well. I don't use much colour but these are the kind of images that I would withdraw a colour scheme from to use minimally within my illustrations. They are quite subtle if used that way but you could also extract the more striking colours and have a much bolder colour scheme still with natural roots.