“Reflection” is an exhibition bringing together the work of Kohei Nawa and Sue Ford. To reflect refers to an effect of light and also recalling memories. The exhibition is held in a tunnel, which is built for snow fence, so it has some holes on the ceiling, which allows the light from the sun to come into the tunnel. The reflection is occurred only when the light is present, and this tunnel is the perfect place to feel both the light and darkness from nature. Also the long tunnel represents the journey and time in the life and pathway to the human sense, which relates to the ideas of Sue Ford and Kohei Nawa. Both Nawa and Sue use reflection but their artworks have different meaning to each other.
Sue Ford is a feminist Australian photographer who also creates films. Ford is interested in time and how the past affects to the present and even the future. Her curiosity in time drove her to create a great series of self-portrait of her, which was started since 1960 and finishes in 2006. She uses photograph to record her life. Sue often uses black and white photographs to add the oldness and it represents how the time reduces the freshness of human. Photographs are collections of light reflection on objects, but also Sue’s work has meaning of life reflection. 
Kohei Nawa’s idea is to show “uncertainties of reality between seeing and perception.” Nawa notices that everything surrounding us is a combination of light reflection. He describes how we indentify things by trough our sense of sight. The sense of the sight is shown by the reflection on the surface of the colour less marbles surrounding the objects represent the sense of the sight. Also, Nawa is aware that we can feel the touch by looking at an object. He often uses stuffed animals to show how our sense of sight affects to our sense of touch as well.
The grey scale photograph always creates a great contrast and the gradation between black and white colours changes the tone and feeling of Ford’s pictures.
When there are black backgrounds like this picture, Ford’s skin is white and bright colour and it highlights and outstands from the dark background. This rich dark tone gives mysterious mood and covers the smoothness on the picture.
The opposite thing happens when the picture has white background; her body skin is darker and isolated from the back colour and this contrast adds little harshness on the gap of Ford and the back.
Some photos do not have much difference in their contrast between black and white; it enhances the softness on Sue’s picture. This photo below has beautiful light graduation on Ford’s skin. Some parts are under the sun and they have more light reflection and brighter colour compared to other parts under the shade. This faint gradation represents the softness, and evanescent life, which is also the idea of her work.
Nawa employs the clear marbles, and their round shapes soften the feeling of the harsh far on the object he uses. The size of the marbles affects to the light reflection on the marbles and shows the colour of the objects underneath differently. Smaller marbles display the original colour of the subject but also have whiter colour. Bigger ones contain more reflection of the subjects around them and it magnifies the surface of the item. This is related to the meaning of the title of his artwork “PixCell”.
These two works below are made with smaller beads and the white colour outstands.
This exhibition recalls the basic knowledge of the sense of sight and passing of the time.
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