Natsukashii, a Japanese word meaning a nostalgic feeling for something lost, is a joint exhibition by Dunedin artists Thomas Lord and Troy Peter James Naumoff, using unusual ways of making their point.
Naumoff's works use mostly photographic films or slides he had found, which he then melts together under strong lenses in the sun.
The result, a somewhat haunting, ethereal twist on old holiday snaps, he then photographs for the final product.
The Melbourne-born artist, now living in Dunedin, said he was a collector of other people's films and slides.
The collection ''got me thinking about the whole notion of other people's nostalgia and memory''.
The work was also a response to a world being destroyed by climate change, something he was trying to point to, but ''not too directly''.
It was Lord, a Dunedin man who graduated from the Dunedin School of Art, who came up with the name for the exhibition.
He brought the term he said he heard regularly in Japan home with him last year, after two years in Japan.
The nostalgia aspect for him was returning to New Zealand and ''being confronted with all this stuff''' kept from his childhood.
He took some of that, a set of basketball cards he had collected, and used it as a canvas on which to paint his memories of Japan.
The photography graduate said the exhibition was the first he had done as a painter.
It was ''definitely'' difficult to paint over the collection, but the cards had ''had their time''.
''It was time to recycle them.''
The exhibition is being held at the Dunedin Art Gallery, in the Allbell Chambers in Stuart St, until Friday.
