Crystal Yachin Lee

It all starts with the tendency to declutter.

I use Photoshop as my paintbrush to edit the compositions. Instead of creating dramatic effects, the digital technologies are utilized to enhance the wonderful colors and atmosphere found in the natural environment. Inspired by traditional Chinese landscape painting, vertical format and large areas of negative space are employed. The texture of the archival watercolor paper delivers a lightness to the colors within the images, which are often challenging to translate from the computer screen to print. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”