Kitty Li was born in Hong Kong and raised east of east LA in Baldwin Park, California. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Kitty returned to China to study her native tongue. She currently lives in Xi’an, China and works as an English teacher at a local university. On her photography: “I’d have to say most of my photographs are accidental, a mere by-product of some obsessive compulsion to record a certain image before it is forgotten. Whether it’s the erecting of a new apartment or the place our shoes occupy, space is constantly being rearranged in various ways so that the images stored in our memories are never exact and usually take form as an amalgamation of prominent features and nostalgia. It plays a central role in many of my photos mainly due to its transient nature and my inability to retain what I most want to remember. But for the most part, my photos are just the aesthetics of what I think looks cool.” |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
