The global positioning of Australia makes it for a unique experience of the world events—having fresh winters while Europe or the USA enjoy the warm summers or hiding from the scorching sun while the others are having winter holidays. And the latter one became especially twisted in the year of pandemic, as the North hemisphere world went into lockdowns in order to fight the second or third waves of Covid-19 infections.
Watching this scenario unravel from the sun-basked Australia, seemed to have a strong impact on Rhys Lee, who recently opened his LA solo debut opened at Avenue des Arts with the aptly titled, Recent Paintings.