Heidi Kumao

Light & Shadow, Portraiture, Presentation

Heidi Kumao’s website

http://www.heidikumao.net/

Heidi Kumao, Timed Release

All pieces in the series below are about surviving confinement through creative means. Video projection on to objects and the wall behind them.

Heidi Kumao, Transplant (2010) explores the lives of Japanese nationals and citizens who were interned during WWII and how they survived confinement by physically transforming gravel into gardens.

 

Heidi Kumao, Transplant (2010) explores the lives of Japanese nationals and citizens who were interned during WWII and how they survived confinement by physically transforming gravel into gardens.

 


Heidi Kumao, Correspondence (2008) is loosely based on the lives of Nelson Mandela and Terry Anderson who both used writing to survive their imprisonment and long-term hostage existence.

 

Heidi Kumao, Tether ( 2010) is based on the life of J.D. Bauby who lived with "locked-in syndrome" and wrote a memoir by blinking out each letter.