Day Series

Day Series comprises eighty drypoint prints made in 2007, each a frame in a sequential study of daily urban experience. Drypoint, an intaglio process in which the image is incised directly into a metal plate with a sharp needle, leaves a characteristic burr that holds ink and prints with a soft, velvety line — a quality suited to Lee's interest in the trace and residue of repeated marks. The series sits at the center of her practice of composing individual prints into stop-motion animation: each sheet functions as an autonomous print, while the eighty together describe a passage of time and movement, mapping the rhythm of an ordinary day. Working between Seoul and New York, Lee uses the reproducible, layered, and erasable qualities of the print to think through the immigrant experience of inhabiting two cities at once. Day Series treats duration itself as printable matter, recording the small recurrences — walking, waiting, looking — that make up urban life across both home countries.