- Valerie Kim
- Where is Now
- Photograph
- 15 x 20 x 0 in
- $750
From the series Brilliance of Now.
Change is overwhelming.
I have the option of response. I can give money to projects. I can stop using plastics and stop eating beef and stop flying, stop driving. I can blame myself; I can panic.
Or I can bring myself inside and climb into this moment. I can find a light and turn it on.
From here I look up to see small white clouds in a vast sky. I notice joy as well as fear. I can feel the fire as well as the chill of change. I stretch into its new clothes and become more than I was.
This moment now, is a sacred place.
In this work, I’m searching for a larger view. Fusing personal narratives with nature, I create conversations. The work moves into an ephemeral dimension. By carrying a linear frame of human emotions, nature holds the stories and they become translucent.
Have I found my way into a deeper space? Can we see a new place from here? I think of them as visual fairy tales.