Kati Lowe Verified listing

My work explores belonging identity and memory through prismatic landscapes rooted in the natural world. Autobiographical at its core, my practice reflects on the love of my adoptive family, the rupture of my birth mother’s absence, and my layered ties to Indigenous and Georgian heritage. It’s about the land that shaped me or the unknowing from the disconnect placed upon me from the  native diaspora. I return to childhood memories of feeling feral and free outdoors, where the land itself offered comfort, imagination, and belonging. Memory doesn’t stay natural or realistic; it gets saturated with emotion, warped by grief, and lit up by nostalgia. The plants I paint are not symbols in the abstract, but specific markers of memory—species tied to places, seasons, and experiences that formed my sense of self, and carried as personal symbols of survival, joy, and grief. By painting plants in neon-saturated colors on acrylic and paper, I transform these forms into portals that hold both loss and renewal. They act as distractions glossed over by imaginative escape. Heightening their fleetingness — it’s beauty that burns bright and vanishes, just like memory or life. Through repetition, fragmentation, and luminous distortion, I seek to reconcile identity with memory. I want to show how the natural world reflects cycles of trauma and healing and the instability that follows. My job is not to reproduce what was there, but to reveal how memory has fractured, glowed, or become haunted within me.

Nature!