03: illuminance 光客
Illuminance is a series born from a single childhood memory: a brief yet profound encounter with something otherworldly. As a boy walking home one night with my mother and brother, the sky suddenly opened. In a flash of light, a figure appeared—a visitor of pure light that shone with an impossible brightness, a shape I remember as a horse.
This project is a direct inquiry into the act of witnessing. It explores how a shared experience can transform a fleeting, unbelievable moment into a shared truth. If my family and I had not been together that night, would this story have been a fantasy instead of a validated memory?
In this body of work, the photographs position forests and trees not as a backdrop, but as the true, silent observers. They are the everlasting witnesses to such a grand, temporal illuminance—a fleeting presence seen only by them. Through this series, the work narrates the possibility of a world where the most profound events are not seen by human eyes, but held in the quiet, unyielding memory of the natural world.
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