Eun Yong Lee

Circling

Eun’s work centers on bringing narratives into the world. He traces how we perceive and respond to our surroundings, weaving together the metaphors embedded within those processes and transforming them into object and movement. 

His thesis body of work explores Korean aesthetic sensibilities from the perspective of material logic, placing at its core the process of reinterpreting and materializing them. Here, “material logic” refers to the relationships among materials that emerge from a particular group’s accumulated understanding of materials, as well as from the ways in which they combine and use them.
 

Moon Stool
2025
14.5″x12.8″x12.8″
maple wood, hanji, cashew lacquer.

A stool with a moon shaped seat.

Paper Basket
2026
3.5″x13″x4.7″ 
hanji, cashew lacquer, bamboo

Basket made of hanji.

Crow Instrument
2025
15.7″x7.9″x11.8″
maple wood, steel, paint

Instrument inspired by crows in Providence.

College Hill

A sculpture inspired by the movement of the sun at College Hill, Providence.

Chair

A chair inspired by the architecture symbols in Providence.