On exhibit: Sang Wook Lee at Lake George Arts Project

If you're wondering if ramen noodles are useful for anything, Sang Wook Lee has one answer: sculpture.

In his new exhibit at the Lake George Arts Project's Courthouse Gallery, the Korean fiber designer stacked 8,000 unwrapped packages horizontally across half the floor.

Without using adhesive materials, Lee balanced each 3.75-by-3.75-inch square at roughly a 45-degree angle against each other creating a horizontal tapestry.

After using ramen for years, Lee, a professor of fiber arts at Skidmore College, is thinking about moving on to another medium, but it's become such a signature for him that he believes it will be hard to stop given the reaction he's received nationally.

What (do) ramen noodles mean to you in the context of Korean culture?

The widely known ramen noodles to Americans are a cheap source of food used as a replacement for chicken noodle soup.

Ever since they could open a package of ramen noodles my sons have helped me in installing my work.

[...] the use of ramen noodles as an art medium seems to be very popular, and I believe that the demand for the ramen will prevent me from straying from using it.

The use of ramen is always a fun and challenging event and although ramen work will turn up again I will try to take a break from using it as a medium.