Kami’s tenebrous Night Paintings (–) are composed largely from a single shade of indigo—said to
be the color of the night—mixed with various gradations of white. Each canvas in this new series is
filled with blue-whitish apparitions that float just past the limits of materiality and concrete
representation. These outlines shift between seemingly solid, liquid, and gaseous states—an osseous
structure melts into a milky swirl, which in turn evaporates into a coil of smoke—yet their true forms
and references ultimately remain veiled beneath hazy brushwork.
With their soft edges and shimmering biomorphic patterns, Kami’s paintings limn the boundaries
between the earthly and the sublime. Subtly informed by his cultural heritage yet resolutely
cosmopolitan and secular, Kami’s oeuvre communicates a philosophical and spiritual reflectiveness;
at the same time, he visually obscures and anonymizes his subjects, preferring to approach broader
questions of the infinite and the ineffable rather than delving into the specifics of a religious
existence.