Kati lowe

MFA Painting

Held In Sediment

My work considers time as cyclical rather than linear—returning, accumulating, and folding back on itself. It is shaped by grief as an ongoing condition, where absence persists through memory and reappears in shifting, fractured forms.

Objects, surfaces, and natural phenomena carry traces of what is no longer visible. Memory is embedded in matter, where a cicada shell, a cloud, or a weathered surface becomes a record of return. These materials suggest time not as progression, but as residue and recurrence.

The work exists in an in-between state—an aftermath suspended between pause and revelation—where meaning remains unsettled. Perception is slowed, fragmented, and slightly misaligned, so that looking becomes unstable rather than resolved.

I am interested in how internal emotional states are mirrored in landscape and seasonal change, where external cycles echo internal ones. Fracturing and misalignment become ways of experiencing this overlap, revealing how perception shifts rather than stabilises.

Rather than resolving grief or absence, the work stays with their recurrence. Time pools in objects and images as something continually returning—never complete, always in flux.