BECOMING

The beauty of seeing is limitless. How we see an object and what it represents based on our own understanding is changed in time as we eliminate the inessentials, seek the essentials, until the object reveals and becomes.

I am endlessly enthralled by what I see as I delve between the visible and the hidden. I love how an object slowly uncovers itself and what happens visually as a result. What I see and feel towards myself and my subjects and how the camera record is what I respond to. It brings me closer to the actual experience of seeing and allows me to explore the duality of the object and capture the very core essence and beauty of it.

The abstract/surreal quality within each of my work examines the capacity of our eyes to change the way we look at something and the capability of the object to transform within the act of seeing. It also seeks to explore the duality of the object: what is perceived as real and what is perceived as abstracted, by becoming.

The series are carefully considered and the subjects range from the simple beautiful objects left unnoticed like plastics and cloths to a noticeable subject – a man swimming in a pool.

Words by Kadin Tiu

Kadin Tiu is a self-trained photographer and studied painting with Ronald Caringal. She is a licensed nurse from the University of Santo Tomas who answered her call to pursue art instead. Her works make us look at something we won’t normally see and yet see something we are purposely looking for. They are quiet, intimate dialogues with the things that are beautiful. Kadin has shot for Flow magazine and is part of Preview magazine’s anniversary issue coming out April. This is her first solo exhibit.

Opening cocktails of “Becoming” will be on Saturday 6PM, March 07, 2009 at The Cubicle Art Gallery, 40A. C. Raymundo corner Stella Marris Street Brgy. Maybunga, Pasig City