ARTIST BIO

I am Francis A. Lee (she/her) a writer and multidisciplinary, mixed-media artist living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. My work explores emotional experience and memory. I begin with an intuitive, non-representational process. Layers of collage and modeling paste establish the foundation, followed by paint, fragments of journal writing, ink, and additional collage, allowing the work to move from raw abstraction toward refined detail.

Texture is central to my practice. Letters, numbers, and asemic writing appear throughout the surfaces—serving as traces of thought, memory, and internal dialogue. These marks suggest what is remembered, hidden, or unresolved.

Human figures or body fragments emerge like ghosts. Through this interplay of material, mark, and form, I reflect emotional paradoxes such as joy/grief, vulnerability/resilience and presence/absence. Rather than offering fixed narratives, I invite viewers to bring their own experiences into the encounter.