Understanding Time Through Walking. Exploring Existence Through Seeing.

Pi-Lin Liu is a Taiwanese artist working with photography and handcrafted platinum-palladium printing.

Her artistic journey began in painting, where questions of space, perception, and the unseen dimensions of experience first emerged. Photography later became a natural extension of this inquiry—not simply as a means of recording the world, but as a way of engaging with time, presence, and the subtle conditions through which existence reveals itself.

Rather than focusing on events or narratives, Liu is drawn to states of becoming: moments that remain unresolved, suspended between appearance and disappearance, formation and dissolution. Through walking and sustained observation, she explores how time manifests across landscapes, matter, and human presence.

For Liu, contemporary digital image-making and handcrafted platinum-palladium printing are inseparable stages of a single creative process. The image begins through seeing and photography, takes form digitally, and ultimately acquires a material presence through light, chemistry, paper, and metal. In this process, the image not only carries time, but also passes through time in the making of the work.

Her ongoing practice is guided by The Quiet Axis of Earth, an exploration of how the world continually unfolds through subtle transformation. Through landscape, atmosphere, and relational space, Liu’s photographs create a quiet encounter with existence as it emerges, changes, and gradually fades.