“Decomposition of Photography by Soil” by Kurumi Ono
“She is interested in the duality that everything is changing in this world, but also fear and joy with change. Her work is not just a photography. It could be contemporary art. ”
“Decomposition of Photography by Soil,” a project by a Tokyo and London based Japanese artist, Kurumi. Her work is unique in the process itself. It sprang from her curiosity of the world around her; the duality of life and death, the wheel of life forever changing. “People have the sense that they want to preserve something forever. However, all living beings return to the soil and everything is fleeting.”
She started photographing things that one day will disappear and return to soil from fruits, insects’ wings, flowers, human skins and so on. Then returns them to the earth and waits for her art to happen. She digs up the printed photographs from soil after leaving them for weeks and months, scans them to create her final artwork. Her images remind us of the never-changing rule of the universe.
