LOWLIGHT is a poetry project exploring identity development, material relationships, and the interconnections of place and personhood. The experimental work materializes in different forms, shape shifting through performance, video, photography, drawing, and music production. The project uses foundational ideas about loneliness, memory, and filmmaking from Hawj's original poem "January Lowlight," functioning as a grounding mantra for life's unpredictability and advancements.
LOWLIGHT
2022 - Current
Lowlight 001
2023
Filmed on a Sony 2007 camera, the contemplative mantra of "January Lowlight" takes its first video form capturing urban and suburban environments. It questions one's sense of personhood and home while living on a bustling city street in Minneapolis, and traveling to the quiet outskirts to visit family. Overlaying footage of car rides, swimming goldfish, video diaries, and social events, Lowlight 001 documents the melancholic code switching and development of character, from stranger, to creator, to loved one.
2024
Filmed on a Sony 2007 camera with photos taken on an iPhone 14, Lowlight 002 takes the form of a well-documented experimental performance through video and photography to further investigate material relationships with paper, masking tape, and charcoal. It understands identity development and self expression as a journey where the actions of the past and present inevitably influence future outcomes. It is the second iteration of LOWLIGHT.
Tracing paper, charcoal, letter stencil, Nike Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG ‘White Cement,’ white T-shirt, blue denim jeans, NY Yankees ‘47 gray cap.
Lowlight 002
Lowlight 002 Video Gallery
Stills from the performance video Lowlight 002
