Crystal City

“Crystal City Spun,” is a spectacle of sexually charged stimuli, which opens with a cityscape of spinning dildo towers. Out of the landscape emerges Dragon YONG, a vehicle for fantasy exploration by, TOKI, a highly stylized curvaceous, warrior-cum-vixen who draws upon the Japanese tradition of Manga, Korean animamix and Western ideals of sexuality and beauty. TOKI exists in a fantasyland ripe with testosterone-driven energy. The prints that comprise “Crystal City”—images derived from the 3D animation video—have a playful, childlike quality alluding to fantasy and toys such as pink bunny rabbits and digitally exaggerated reflections. But at the same time, Lee explores sexual innuendo, and plays with varying degrees of sexuality and sexual expression both with imagery and color. The prints utilize the latest techniques in 3D digital technology creating some characters in “crystal” structure, lending these prints a delicacy and elegance. Crystal City is a fantasyland where dream and reality mix.. “Crystal City” is a project in which cyberculture and contemporary myth-making intersect.