Komorebi — Muzi Li Rowe

Komorebi, installation view at TGTG, 2019. Mixed media. Dimensions variable.

An image is experienced through its content as well as the medium that carries it. As an image maker, I study various analog processes to better understand the physicality of each medium, and to experience the slow conception of an image from the past. Experiments with large format photography, digital photography and historical processing methods eventually led me into building cameras using found optics.

Making also became a refuge where I process grief since my mother’s sudden passing. I began photographing my immediate surroundings during moments when familiar things feel strange again, when every mundane object becomes a memento mori. While these quiet moments are being captured, drawing remains as a meditative process. Using defective camera lenses previously collected, I began building projectors, as vehicles for these drawings and photographs to be seen. As I revisit the past that happened, these fragmented moments are living again as vivid projections, while remaining as malleable echoes of the past.

Komorebi

Komorebi

KomorebiInstallation view at TGTG, May 2019.

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