'Light drawing (past and future)’
2020
Photograms made by painting with light, refracted through different glass prisms in the darkroom and then over painted with non-lightfast photographic inks, behind UV protected Museum glass.
The inks are unstable and their longevity unaccountable, their usual use is for retouching photographs before rescanning. Some painted colours will last only a short duration, others a century or more, dependent on the depth of their colour and exposure to different light levels. Each colour applied is individually named but the colours formed by overlapping hues are not, they remain visible but unnamed entities.
Countering the photographic instant, different possible states of the work will occur. Refracted through glass as a transparent but operative boundary, light makes a continual oscillation from the fixing of the past light onto photographic paper, to the tension of the future light to come.
Connected to the past, simultaneously acting into the future, the resulting images unsettle the present. The material gives way to the temporal, time forms the work, from the fixing of an image of light, to light unfixing the image and freeing individual colours from the conditions that hold them.
2020
Photograms made by painting with light, refracted through different glass prisms in the darkroom and then over painted with non-lightfast photographic inks, behind UV protected Museum glass.
The inks are unstable and their longevity unaccountable, their usual use is for retouching photographs before rescanning. Some painted colours will last only a short duration, others a century or more, dependent on the depth of their colour and exposure to different light levels. Each colour applied is individually named but the colours formed by overlapping hues are not, they remain visible but unnamed entities.
Countering the photographic instant, different possible states of the work will occur. Refracted through glass as a transparent but operative boundary, light makes a continual oscillation from the fixing of the past light onto photographic paper, to the tension of the future light to come.
Connected to the past, simultaneously acting into the future, the resulting images unsettle the present. The material gives way to the temporal, time forms the work, from the fixing of an image of light, to light unfixing the image and freeing individual colours from the conditions that hold them.
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Ultramarine and Jet Black, UV protected Museum glass, 41 x 35 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic ink, Ultramarine, UV protected Museum glass, 41 x 35 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Caput Mortuum and Deep Green, UV protected Museum glass, 41 x 35 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Flesh-tint Reddish and Blue Euro, UV protected Museum glass, 37 cm x 40 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Caput Mortuum and Van Dyke Brown, UV protected Museum glass, 37 cm x 40 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Prussian Blue and Blue acc Euro, UV protected Museum glass, 41 x 35 cm
Photogram, non-lightfast photographic inks, Ultramarine and Vermilion, UV protected Museum glass, 41 x 35 cm