Working with sugar, he must handle hot sugar syrup. But he said that to create a work of art, he can overlook the pain.
One of Lee's prize-winning works is a statue of an eagle. "To make it, I bought photo collections of birds. The eagle had hundreds of plumes. I shaped each one separately," he said. "Ambition is important to a man. Life is short. I have to do something different to satisfy myself -- maybe to satisfy my vanity."



