Blow, a time-based exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo (b. 1975), which fuses traditional Japanese art forms with contemporary digital animation. This is the first time the work, on display at Transformer Station through October 8, 2023, will be on view since its acquisition by the CMA in 2012. The open-ended, fragmentary nature of Blow is intentional, as the artist often draws from personal experiences and emotions. Throughout the five-minute looped digital animation, bubbles, body parts, and various plants float through space. The accompanying audio, which mimics the dripping and rushing of water, is an acoustic collage of digitally invented sounds. Blow is the installation work that started Tabaimo’s flow-wer series of drawings. “I am still drawing the flow-wer series intermittently, and each time I draw, I am reminded of this work,” Tabaimo said. “I am very much looking forward to Blow, which will stand in reality for the first time in nine years.” Concurrently on view in Transformer Station’s Crane Gallery will be another work by Tabaimo, The Obscuring Moon (2016), which draws on a print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), taking it to animated, fantastical ends.