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# Project Description The Days After Bloom sihui li Summary Final work Sihui Li is a visual artist and photographer from Guangzhou, China. Her work explores themes of time, memory, and disappearance through quiet and subtle imagery. Influenced by her background in design, she focuses on composition, light, and emotion. This background allows her to combine structure with sensitivity in her work. Drawn to the calm and contemplative nature of photography, she often uses it to reflect on the traces of life and the passage of time. Sihui Li is a visual artist and photographer from Guangzhou, China. Her work exp... College London College of Communication Course MA Photography Graduation year 2025 This project is based on the concept of "memento mori", which translates from Latin as "remember you must die."Originating as a visual theme in ancient Roman and Christian traditions, memento mori serves as a reminder of death and the irreversible nature of time. In this work, I aim to reinterpret this ancient concept through a more personal and delicate visual language. In this project, I photograph flowers from blooming to withering, observing the subtle changes that appear during this process. As one of the most fragile and short-lived forms in nature, flowers naturally carry the imagery of disappearance and death. Their decay makes me think about the passing of time and the feeling of loss. To express this sense of fragility, I use blurred, soft-focus black and white photography to emphasize light and tone, capturing images that are fading from view and cannot be fully seen. These images reveal a sense of fragility and uncertainty, like moments that are disappearing yet still remain in memory. I created this work to explore how contemporary photography can express the passage of time and death. Through photographing flowers, I approach the subject of death in a gentle way. This process allows me to view death and loss with calmness rather than fear. I hope that when viewers look at these images, they can pause and feel the flow of time, sensing the coexistence of beauty and disappearance. Final work The Days After Bloom The Days After Bloom is based on the concept of "memento mori" - remember you must die. Originating in Roman and Christian traditions, it reminds us of death and the irreversible passage of time. In this work, blurred, soft-focus black-and-white photography is employed to respond to this concept, presenting images fading from view, never fully grasped. Flowers, fragile and short-lived, suggest death and disappearance. They are fragmented, like traces of memory. This project becomes a meditation on loss and irreversible time, inviting viewers to experience ideas of death and absence, within the empty spaces of the image. The Days After Bloom One of the works from The Days After Bloom The Days After Bloom One of the works from The Days After Bloom The Days After Bloom One of the works from The Days After Bloom Share this project This project is based on the concept of "memento mori", which translates from Latin as "remember you must die."Originating as a visual theme in ancient Roman and Christian traditions, memento mori serves as a reminder of death and the irreversible nature of time. In this... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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