Kim Llerena
  • The Sun Bathers
  • American Scrapbook
  • American Miniature
  • Happy Little Clouds, Happy Little Trees
  • Rust Sun Bible Corn
  • Nowhere More Familiar
  • Closed For Season
  • BIO | CONTACT
  • STUDIO SALE

© Kim Llerena 2023

The Sun Bathers American Scrapbook American Miniature Happy Little Clouds, Happy Little Trees Rust Sun Bible Corn Nowhere More Familiar Closed For Season BIO | CONTACT STUDIO SALE

© Kim Llerena 2023

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  • This work is a quiet contemplation on a particular chapter in time, one largely defined by our ties to the world outside. For two years, our lives became more isolated, more domestic, and more interior. Since we’ve emerged, changes to weather, temperature, and tides are more undeniable than ever. One could argue that we are adrift between two uncomfortable realities – that we’re in the calm both before and after a storm.

    In obscured portraits and tight crops, these images foreground gesture as an expression of their subjects’ renewed but mutable relationship to place. Private moments play out in public spaces against a recurring backdrop of sea and sunlight. Implications of water are loosely threaded throughout, the subjects hovering always at its edge. Bodies interweave with fragments of these environments, suggesting that our connections to the natural world are at once abundant, entangled, and precarious.