Color Burst

Artwork Details

Color Burst

• Series: High-Speed Impact
• Medium: Archival pigment print
• Print: Edition and size details available on request.

Color Burst is one of Kwok’s most saturated impact studies. Red, yellow, and green powder explode across suspended fish forms, turning the black background into a stage for pure chromatic force. The subject is almost secondary to the event: colour becomes the evidence of impact. Each burst has a different density and direction, so the photograph reads from left to right as a sequence of strikes. Within the High-Speed Impact group, the work expands the language beyond water, ash, and shell into pigment. It is closer to painting than documentation, but its energy depends on the camera’s ability to stop time. The image is joyful and violent at once, holding the moment when form, powder, and light collide into a temporary colour sculpture.

Caption: Red, yellow, and green powder make impact visible as colour.

Award/source note: Part of the Collision and studio impact archive.