BERNADETTE , known as

Bernadette Kam Fu LEE

as well as Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA , A FINE ARTIST and a Self-published author



Art , not for sale except for prints and artist books solely handled by Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi.( previously known as Mavida)

Bernadette does not sell her pieces since her retrospective in Florence ( 1983-1993, Grande Quadri. Quadri Invendibili)

whoever sells you works by Bernadette after that date could be of stolen pieces.

Kindly inform Bernadette via email: leekamfubernadette@pec.it


Bernadette’s diary- 


on Apple Books

for free reading

under author: 

Last name: LEE-PISAPIA

first name: Kam Fu Bernadette



LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette or LEE Kam Fu Bernadette

( order of name used in Hong Kong and Italy

alias

Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA ( alias Kam Fu Bernadette LEE PISAPIA)

(order of name used in Britain, Canada )

alias

Bernadette Kam Fu LEE ( maiden name)(artist name)


LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette

(order and form ( with a comma in between ) generally used in Hong Kong to distinguish

last name from first name)


Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA

(order generally used in Britain and Canada )



penname: Bernadette K. Pisapia, Kam Fu Pisapia, Lee-Pisapia Kam Fu Bernadette






Bernadette is the writer as well as the publisher

the name chosen for the publisher ( not a registered company ) has two

formats:

LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette ( Hong Kong format), or LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette ( Italian format) . Therefore, the comma in between does not mean two distinct individuals as it is used to distinguish the last name and the first name in the Hong Kong format. For the other format, capital letter has been used to indicate the LAST NAME from the first name.

( from 06/09/2023, the Italain format is officially transformed to LEE Kam Fu Bernadette coniugata PISAPIA . However, the fully extended writing of my hyphenated Last Name is still maintained as my Canadian and Hong Kong identity : Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA)


NOTE:

email : ahfu@bernadetteleepisapia.it has previously been compromised and therefore please use the email:

kamfubernadette@icloud.com or leekamfubernadette@gmail.com to contact me.


Thank you.

Bernadette

05/05/2023

Hong Kong







student name used in Italy:

LI (last name)

Kam Fu Bernadette ( first name)

photos 40 years later:

with Padre Gianni in Dec 1983, Hong Kong

with Don Italo. Mazzano Romano, Oct 2023


videos Per Padre Gianni can be viewed on my other website:www.bernadetteleepisapia.it especially realised by Bernadette for the family of Padre Gianni in Mazzano Romano and Capranica, Italy, thanking them for their hospitality

the boy and the Ox , a print in 97 editions was commissioned by Mavida, Reggio Emilia, one of the very few high quality hand printing art book publishers in Italy, realising artists ' books from the idea of concieving to the final realisation - all handmade, handbound, with traditional typo techniques dated back to the period of Gutenberg Books made with linocut prints were all intervened by the artists themselves, with each single print being slightly different, hence each book is a single unique work of art Hand printed by Mavida, this print was a natural consequence of the studies I made during the course of the year in 1985-1989, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence- I was interested in Zen, a way of sharing my Eastern upbringing with my western classmates and professors the meeting with Professor Manfredi allowed me to go back once again to my oriental roots, to find delight in the spontaneous expression of brush works, thus linocut prints, a medium closest to Chinese wood block printing It was under this unbiased attitude towards being an oriental that made my stay in Florence, Italy memorable Thus, at the return of Hong Kong to China, I picked this zen story to express how one would perhaps be on the way of an eventual spiritual awakening- from the boy who lost trace of an ox ( spiritual self ) to the boy who found his ox, and how at the end he forgot both himself ( his ego ) and the ox ( his spirit ) - in the sense of being fully in tune with the universe, ( being one with the ten thousand things- as the Chinese sayings go ) . yet this illumination is still not enough- a moment would come when he returns truly to his original self- this is a level beyond words, and the degree of this understanding varies , according to one's innate makeup of his spiritual self Whether it is zen or not zen, all that lies is one's purity of hearts so pure that at one point, nothing exists yet all coesist, a transparent yet forever changing reality, rich and empty at the same time

the boy and the Ox , a print in 97 editions was commissioned by Mavida, Reggio Emilia, one of the very few high quality hand printing art book publishers in Italy, realising artists ' books from the idea of concieving to the final realisation - all handmade, handbound, with traditional typo techniques dated back to the period of Gutenberg
Books made with linocut prints were all intervened by the artists themselves, with each single print being slightly different, hence each book is a single unique work of art
Hand printed by Mavida, this print was a natural consequence of the studies I made during the course of the year in 1985-1989, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence-
I was interested in Zen, a way of sharing my Eastern upbringing with my western classmates and professors
the meeting with Professor Manfredi allowed me to go back once again to my oriental roots, to find delight in the spontaneous expression of brush works, thus linocut prints, a medium closest to Chinese wood block printing
It was under this unbiased attitude towards being an oriental that made my stay in Florence, Italy memorable
Thus, at the return of Hong Kong to China, I picked this zen story to express how one would perhaps be on the way of an eventual spiritual awakening- from the boy who lost trace of an ox ( spiritual self ) to the boy who found his ox, and how at the end he forgot both himself ( his ego ) and the ox ( his spirit ) - in the sense of being fully in tune with the universe, ( being one with the ten thousand things- as the Chinese sayings go ) .
yet this illumination is still not enough- a moment would come when he returns truly to his original self- this is a level beyond words, and the degree of this understanding varies , according to one's innate makeup of his spiritual self
Whether it is zen or not zen, all that lies is one's purity of hearts
so pure that at one point, nothing exists yet all coesist, a transparent yet forever changing reality, rich and empty at the same time

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