Lotus L. Kang Synapse 17:14, 2025

Lotus L. Kang's series entitled Synapse continues her longstanding engagement with cameraless photography. These works are created through an analogue luminogram process, wherein Kang places nylon produce bags - the type commonly used to package onions and citrus - in the head of a photo enlarger before projecting them onto photographic paper in the darkroom. The colors are created with filters directly in this process, making each work in the series unique.

The resulting images are both saturated and sensorial, loosely suggestive of bodily forms and functions - sinuous tendons, firing neurons, branching networks of nerves - each a nod to endless processes of regeneration, reproduction, and change.