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Jiaming Lei: Warm Memories: Wednesdays

Gallery 5, 3/6/2023–3/9/2023

Advisors: Binh Danh

 

Artist's Statement

During the last three years, my creative endeavors have focused on women's mental health, mainly the influence of unhealthy and unstable relationships women's psychological and physical health, and stressed women's passive, weak, and fragile features. Warm Memories: Wednesdays aims to show women's energetic, optimistic, and delicate sensibility by photographing different locations and focusing the details in the surroundings. The title Warm Memories: Wednesdays emphasizes the work is time-based. Because when a specific moment is chosen might represent a state of tension, yet pleasant happening on the same day can soothe the emotions. This concept collaborates with the method of work-life balance. And as a woman's Responsibilities grow, her time becomes increasingly limited

I choose black and white film as my medium because it gives me a sense of calm and comfort when creating. Other than that, I was inspired by Ansel Adams and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Therefore, I used a narrow aperture to get a sharp image, telling my Warm Memories: Wednesdays realistic and true.