Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Yi-Jen Lee
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Painting
2021
Ink stick and Ink on rice paper
18 x 27 inches
I created an imaginary place with my family house and the lighthouse in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in a Chinese landscape. This allows me to ease my homesickness during the pandemic and express my yearning to belong two both identities and not in between!九月九日憶山東兄弟:獨在異鄉為異客,每逢佳節倍思親。遙知兄弟登高處,遍插茱萸少一人。-王維English translation of "Missing My Brothers in Shandong on the Double Ninth":I am an outsider in a foreign place alone,Every occasion of festivity finds me missing my family manifold.In the distance, my brothers must be making a climb into the highlands,They would have evodia attached to their sleeves and my absence noted.- Wang Wei (699 AD-761 AD)
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Yi-Jen Lee
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