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BY MALIE HUDSON
.C. ARTIST TING-TING LEE began taking photos for her “Seeking God” collection shortly after her baptism on Easter Sunday in 2015. She never imagined that her journey would lead to her work being displayed inside Christ Cathedral. “This is a lot of work but the work itself is so important. The process is so important. The result is something I know I needed to show to people. I didn’t know where, but I just felt that this belongs to the Church,” said Lee, who grew up in Taiwan in a non-religious household. In 1977, she came to California as a foreign student with the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned her MFA degree in Graphic Design. She met Tim Barker in college, and they married in 1978. She returned to Taiwan to teach and later moved back to California with her husband and their son, Christopher. For 38 years, the couple has managed their Costa Mesa-based business, Barker and Lee Graphic Design Studio. Lee’s other works, “California Chinatown 1978,” “CHA” and “California Chinatown 1978 & 2008,” were featured in the California Museum of Science and Industry, California Institute of the Arts, America Culture Center (Taipei), Newport Beach Library and Fremont Main Library. Her son’s school project on California missions inspired her appreciation for Catholic churches. She visited the missions in 2009 and completed her “California Missions” series that year (later displayed at Newport Beach Library). Her journey led her to the RCIA program at Sts. Simon and Jude CONTINUES ON PAGE 11
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PART OF LEE’S “SEEKING GOD” PHOTO COLLECTION IS THIS IMAGE TAKEN AT ST. NORBERT CHURCH IN ORANGE. PHOTO COURTESY TING-TING LEE
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