3:20 minutes
Video with Handmade Bark Frame, 16mm Direct Animation
2026
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Back to the Idea of Release draws a parallel between photography and photosynthesis: both are processes activated by light, transforming energy into material form. If photosynthesis converts light into sustenance, the work asks what photography releases into the world: what forms of attention, memory, and relation emerge through the act of image-making.
Created through direct animation on 16mm film and developed with natural materials including hibiscus flower dyes, the work layers floral imagery with ink, gesture, and obscuration. Images appear and recede through successive interventions, emphasizing transformation rather than representation. The film becomes a site of exchange where surrounding materials, light, and time are absorbed and reconfigured.