Each tree stands as a monument to the shared tree of life 🌳
Islands are places of coming and going. They’re changeable, but in their own unique, insular ways. Their isolation means they’re often harbours of diversity that might not be seen on the mainland., who for the past 20 years has made the eponymous island both her home and the subject of her intriguing revealing practice. InKim turns the diverse and abundant flora of the island into an allegorical depiction of the island’s old inhabitants, temporary visitors, and new arrivals.
All of this provides rich material for Kim’s camera. Each picture is calm, composed, and filled with lush verdant landscapes of windswept palms, knotted shrubs, plump cacti and aged pines with bark like the rough hands of fishermen. Are these landscapes, still lifes, or perhaps portraits? It’s difficult to tell, but at the same time it’s easy to be fascinated by each tree’s form, to imagine their backstory and their unique personality.
Surrounded by the ebb and flow of the tides and wave after wave of outsiders, island life can be a tough, transitory existence. But these trees provide a constant rootedness in a world which can change day-by-day, year-by-year. It’s important to remember that many of these trees were outsiders which came to be accepted and now form part of the identity of the island. Kim emphasises the common origin of these species.
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