"From deep down to high up go
inward for light. Keep drowning keep
growing keep listening to the sun."
(From Hannah Emerson's "The Sun")
Midnight Flower is a photographic series that explores the ambient sense of place of two cities at night as a metaphor for the process of meeting inner darkness, and inner light. Developed through two self-initiated residencies in 2025, every aspect of the work was intentionally undertaken as a journey of encounter, embracing the uncertainty of not-knowing and intuition by following sensations in the body. In this suspended world of absence and sensuality, colours burst out of absolute blackness like fireworks, and fragmentary impressions of human gestures and gazes never-returned suggest both intimacy and distance; somewhere and nowhere, against the almost-familiar backdrop of every daily life. But If there is a light in the darkness that is guiding us somewhere, where are we going? And could there be a flower in the heart that blooms at midnight?
