I’m fascinated with how the sun creates a truly impermanent drawing, that pure moment when it registers and then shape shifts, alters, moves on… that feeling of ‘you will never be here again…’.
The Japanese have a word for it ‘komorebi’, meaning beams of light shining through the environment. In English there are many phrases used to describe this tree light, sunbeam, dappled light, forest rays and the technical term crepuscular rays.
My camera roll is full of two things, colour and these komorebi moments, I took them into the studio and decided to play around with colour and shape. Not recreating, just evoking this temporal constant natural occurring phenomenon.
The paper is painted on both sides giving it weight. The dimensions give a totemic like quality, the biomorphic shapes sitting both anchored and floating creating this boomerang feeling.