Daniel Lee

Daniel Lee AKA Lee Xiaojing      

Whilst in class i was highly drawn to the brilliance of this mans work. I truley love the way he combines his human potraits with animals.

Daniel Lee is an artist who uses photoshop techniques to combine human features with animal features. As soon as I saw a display of Daniel Lees' work I instantly found myself immersed within it. It reminds me of my early childhood. To a less degree it reminds me of when I used to watch “teenage mutant ninja turtles”, or even “biker mice”. Even though they were meant to be animals they all had human structures and features and this is what I liked about Daniel Lee. 

"despite being more highly evoled than our fellow creatures , we are still animals" Daniel Lee 1993.

"Daniel  Lee Manimals"

Human Evolution

Ever since I could ask the question "where did we originate from", i have been highly fasinated with human evolution. I always wondered how we got here and what comes next. I find looking at Daniel Lees' work that this makes my mind settle because his work makes my visualise what could have been.

I was looking over some of Daniel Lees' works and came across this fantastic image on evolution. I really love this picture because it really feeds my imagination to question, is this was how humans actually evolved from day one.

"Origin" by Daniel Lee

The video belolw is a 35 second clip which merges together the images above giving a more clear view of the evolution from an Amoeba to a human Lifeform Through 12 Stages of evolution.