SANDRA SUNNYO LEE

My art is an endeavor to express the profound formulation of mind and being. Within emptiness is fullness. The full is empty.

Existence is a constant coming and going, an unceasing change. Out of apparent voidness comes being. My images mirror this truth of mind and experience.

In the series of “self-no self” I try to experience the meditative state and the desire to transcend one’s ego and find connectivity with the larger universe. I wouldn’t characterize my work necessarily as “Buddhist” painting but there are aspects of it.

While contemplating the self in the stillness, identity changes to no identity, there is no boundary between you and me or he/she and me, and we are interacting with all nature-form. The idea of self from a position of radical subjectivity is no longer self but rather a common human condition. Self is no self. It is the Self, beyond the self, just opening the self to the field of love that exists between all sentient beings, which brings compassion.