Lee strung a wire between a construction site on the campus of his alma mater and the adjacent university library, then hung a cubelike structure made of lines in the middle and took pictures while gazing up at it from below. In one photo, this arbitrary space is shown as a linear structure that outlines the shape of a cube floating in a void, depicting it as being free from existing perspectives or vanishing points. In another photo, the cube disappears to recreate the sky, which in turn becomes a void once again. Some 15 years after taking this photograph, in his text Space Exists as a Spherical Image published in the January 1989 issue of Photo 291, Lee reflected himself on an idea that he had first developed as a student—a home for the self that exists alone in the cosmos—and wrote that the Earth is a house for all living things. Lee’s artistic philosophy of the spherical world was originally based in the existence of “self,” but later evolved toward a relational consideration of others and the truth of living.
