‘Moment Drawing’ series captures forms of the formless. Smoke is a collection of countless small particles that continuously move, making their way into the air. Their movement creates various momentary shapes, forms and patterns before they disappear into the air. ‘Moment Drawing’ captures those moments of transformation when the shapeless mass of a smoke suddenly takes on a highly suggestive form.
‘Moment Drawing’ series highlights the subjective nature of human perception and the contingency of photographic meaning. In ‘Moment Drawing’ series, plumes of smoke are transformed into a series of organic flowery shapes. A photograph can be seen and interpreted in many different ways. Viewers bring their own experience, knowledge, and desires to the image. What is perceived in the photograph is the result of complex negotiations between theses contending forces. ‘Moment Drawing’ probes the relationship between the real and the perceptual by opening up a space where perception becomes a form of misperception, recognition becomes a form of misrecognition, and imagination conflates with reality.
‘Moment Drawing’ series pays tribute to the primal power of photography as trace of the real. While it is limitlessly reproducible, the original moment in “Moment Drawing” happened only once, and cannot be replicated. ‘Moment Drawing’ is a fetish object that captures a singular moment, a slice of the real that is irretrievably lost. By foregrounding loss as its very foundation, ‘Moment Drawing’ mirrors the ontological condition of photography itself in its early development. Smoke shapes are captured at the very moment of their extinction just as photography captures time at the very moment of its passing.
