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Carrier Pigeon is an immersive artwork by Jun Lee. Viewers walk between four large-scale drawings surrounded on all sides by graphite illustrations meant to track a carrier pigeon’s path to maintain altitude over the course of a flight. Each drawing was produced over many days in relative isolation and condenses several weeks of Jun’s life into a multilayered, symbolically dense artifact. Taken together, we are given four images of Jun's life and preoccupations over six months. Jun's quasi-monastic artistic practice has yielded a unique visual language that at times asks viewers to play the role of interpreter/codebreaker. The title of the show, Carrier Pigeon, makes reference to the (until recently) widespread use of pigeons to transport messages over long distances. Jun's interest in the bird's historical role of transmitter of sensitive information in hostile environments, together with his own distrust of faster, modern means of communication, has turned the animal into something…
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Carrier Pigeon is an immersive artwork by Jun Lee. Viewers walk between four large-scale drawings surrounded on all sides by graphite illustrations meant to track a carrier pigeon’s path to maintain altitude over the course of a flight. Each drawing was produced over many days in relative isolation and condenses several weeks of Jun’s life into a multilayered, symbolically dense artifact. Taken together, we are given four images of Jun's life and preoccupations over six months. Jun's quasi-monastic artistic practice has yielded a unique visual language that at times asks viewers to play the role of interpreter/codebreaker. The title of the show, Carrier Pigeon, makes reference to the (until recently) widespread use of pigeons to transport messages over long distances. Jun's interest in the bird's historical role of transmitter of sensitive information in hostile environments, together with his own distrust of faster, modern means of communication, has turned the animal into something…
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