Who is behind those paintings?
Hi, I’m Kami,
I paint moments of change - the instant when something shifts and we know, before we can explain it, that nothing will be quite the same again.
I am interested in the strange, almost unbelievable miracles that happen to us: the moments when life suddenly opens, collapses, collides, or changes direction.
I know these moments intimately. I have experienced the extraordinary highs that feel almost impossible to have happened, as well as the sudden endings that arrive with the same unmistakable clarity: something has broken, something is over, and there is no going back. I am highly sensitive to these shifts in life. I notice them immediately, and I paint from the feelings they leave behind.
The forms that emerge in my paintings exist somewhere between the organic, the geological and the imagined. Lava, fruit, stones, airy clouds, openings and unfamiliar structures drift through spaces, becoming difficult to identify. I am particularly drawn to lava stone - matter that was once liquid, red-hot and moving, and is now solid. It feels like a physical record of transformation: evidence of something that happened violently and completely, leaving a new form behind.
Light is equally important to me. I am fascinated by the way it moves through air, catches particles and changes what we are able to see. In my paintings, light is not simply illumination. It behaves almost like an event - revealing something, passing through something, or marking the moment when a form begins to change.
I paint in a deeply focused state that feels like a combination of flow and hypnotic meditation. Before I begin, I deliberately surrender the need to control the outcome. I have my own ritual of handing the painting over to something beyond my conscious, ego-driven self. I don't want to illustrate an idea I have already decided upon. I want to make room for something I could not have invented deliberately to come through.
This is where the paintings surprise me.
They begin with something familiar, but gradually become something else. A flower can become a wound. A stone can become a living thing. An opening can feel like both an invitation and a disappearance. The images remain suspended between recognition and uncertainty.
I am interested in that unstable territory - the instant when something shifts in an instant; it is still recognizable, but no longer what it was.
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