About Kai Drachenberg
Kai Drachenberg was born in 1990 in the state of Hawaii where he lived for eight years before his parents moved the family. They lived in Nepal, Fiji, and even Kashmir, India for a year while the war between Pakistan and India was in process. Kai’s parents eventually settled down in in the US, first California, Kansas, and finally, Arkansas in 2010. Kai picked up photography in 2012 and has yet to hang it up, saying, “Photography enriches my soul and drives me forward into the unknown.” Drachenberg hopes to shed a new perspective on the way we see what a camera can be and how much further we can take it. He is a multimedia artist that practices transcending & including different mediums of expression to fuse new forms of interpretation. He is most well known for his work in photography, film, and stone balancing in his current home of Fayetteville, Arkansas for the last 8 years. Some of his current foundational inspirations have been exploring the mind's interpretive structures, human development, & existentialism among other layers of perception.
In this series, "Mind In Moments", I record my mental states of being through a free form systematic process as a way to record what was going on inside during the pandemic. It explores meta concepts that form the frame of our meaning, making, and the psychological structures of our mind in constant relationship with external truths and how they inform our actions as they alter our internal perceptions. I start from a single random stroke to set the tone & study its form then develop balance with the frame of the line.
About the art
Kai Drachenberg was born in 1990 in the state of Hawaii where he lived for eight years before his parents moved the family. They lived in Nepal, Fiji, and even Kashmir, India for a year while the war between Pakistan and India was in process. Kai’s parents eventually settled down in in the US, first California, Kansas, and finally, Arkansas in 2010. Kai picked up photography in 2012 and has yet to hang it up, saying, “Photography enriches my soul and drives me forward into the unknown.” Drachenberg hopes to shed a new perspective on the way we see what a camera can be and how much further we can take it. He is a multimedia artist that practices transcending & including different mediums of expression to fuse new forms of interpretation. He is most well known for his work in photography, film, and stone balancing in his current home of Fayetteville, Arkansas for the last 8 years. Some of his current foundational inspirations have been exploring the mind's interpretive structures, human development, & existentialism among other layers of perception.
In this series, "Mind In Moments", I record my mental states of being through a free form systematic process as a way to record what was going on inside during the pandemic. It explores meta concepts that form the frame of our meaning, making, and the psychological structures of our mind in constant relationship with external truths and how they inform our actions as they alter our internal perceptions. I start from a single random stroke to set the tone & study its form then develop balance with the frame of the line.