Xidong Luo is a self-taught fine art photographer based in southern China. She specializes in using mirrors, flowers and other natural elements to honor the grace of age, to express the evanescent feminine beauty and the built-in female pain, the deep connection between female and nature, life and death…

She has a keen interest and a special eye over withering stuff rather than those fresh ones. For her, a withered rose may carry more meaning than those still in bloom, so do all living beings aging with seasons’ change. Her creation is deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese philosophy and the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetics.

With her studio set in a beautiful valley neighboring the beach, most of her “props“ are collected from Mother NATURE, such as broken branches, fallen leaves, seasonal flowers and fruits, stones and shells, etc.,which serve as the primary metaphors in her work.

The inspiration of using a mirror in her creation came from a Chinese idiom “镜花水月”. Literally it means "flowers in the mirror and the moon reflected in the water", which is a metaphor of the UNCERTAINTY, UNATTAINABILITY and NOTHINGNESS of life itself. While visually, besides adding more dimensions and emotive weights to the creation, it leads to a disorientation in time and space, now and then, here and there...slightly surreal.

As an amateur dancer, she takes the advantage of her fairly well-shaped body (for her age) by using herself as the medium of expression to accomplish her art projects ever since the COVID-19 lockdown. Yet it's not just about the beauty of a body shape, it’s more about her profound comprehending and cherishing of life through sorrowfully accepting its fleeting nature.

Before starting a career in photography, she worked for IBM for nearly 10 years and gained multicultural experiences through international business trips. However, due to a lack of interest in business management, she resigned and spent years backpacking off-the-beaten-track, which is the pacing factor and the inspiration of her path in photography.

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艺术家简介

罗汐，生活艺术践行者，旅行及瑜伽达人。读过千卷书，也行过万里路。

成为职业摄影师之前，她曾在世界科技巨头IBM合资企业任职近十年。随后激流勇退，背包行走于海内外，进行自然、历史与人文的多重探索。

因旅行爱上摄影。她听从内心的声音、循着直觉的引领，不断调整人生方向。在诸多因缘和合之下，实现了从职场精英到摄影爱好者再到职业摄影师的转变。正是这非同寻常的命运轨迹，构筑了她独特的视觉语言。

在开创并引领了中国新生儿摄影、专注于女性肖像7年后，疫情3年的闭锁萧条期令她开始重新审视职业方向，尝试以自己为模特进行独立艺术创作。

她擅长将女性人物和自然元素通过形神意的关联性融合在一起，来致敬岁月沉淀的优雅、诠释女性与生俱来的阴柔美、飞逝的青春和被植入的疼痛，以及女性与自然、今与昔、生与死的关系。

活过的年岁和经历的生活，令她对生命历程有着深刻的感受。时间与流逝、无常与短暂、困惑与挣扎、迷失与觉醒、成长与衰老、美与哀愁、生与死……是她视角下永恒的主题。

她希望通过自己的表达让观者从中感知到时间的流动与凝固；在岁月的纹痕和肌理中窥见生命的温度与厚度、渺小与伟大、卑微与庄严，从而愈加珍惜每一个当下，并坦然接纳不完美的自己。

出于对山川草木深深的敬意与热爱，她的大部分创作“道具”都取材于大自然。如野生花草、落叶、枯枝、树根、贝壳、石子等。它们作为自然生命的代表，与画面中的人物一起，在季节流转中同生息、共荣枯。

镜子的灵感来自于成语“镜花水月”。镜中花、水中月隐喻生命中的无常、虚幻和不可触达。除了在视觉上增加画面的维度和戏剧感，更构筑了一种时空的错位——现时与过往，此处与彼处。

在尽情燃烧生命的过程中去探索、领悟与表达生命，这是她作品的灵魂基石。摄影除了是视觉艺术，它还应是文学、是哲思、是生命的历程与人生的境界。