WORK SHOP ABOUT SWAP EDITIONS OBJECT | MULTIPLE
> SHONA LUMEN PRINTS
While artist in residence on Eilean Shona (March 2024) I found myself thinking a lot about the ephemeral nature of the wilderness things around me, and how to capture a sense of alchemy in the work I produced during my month on the island. I’d initially taken some photographic paper to make pin-hole cameras, but by playful disrupting the light sensitive material I could also make photograms, much like the early botanic camera-less photography of the 1800s. My old silver gelatin paper produced colourful images, enhanced by the changing light, long exposures and playful contaminations, and I liked the creature-like almost sci-fi aesthetic of the fantastical specimens that emerged on the paper from the things i’d foraged out the Loch.
To preserve the colours I decided to leave the paper unfixed and keep the latent images as lumen prints exactly as the sun had exposed them. As the photographic paper remains light-sensitive the images will fade away to nothing with continued exposure to daylight - so these works (that will be framed at some point) have been digitally scanned and the original silver gelatin print lives in a light-tight black bag.
The notion of venturing onto a wilderness island on my own to create a set of forever unfixed photographic works that can’t be shown to anyone seemed almost magic in itself.
While artist in residence on Eilean Shona (March 2024) I found myself thinking a lot about the ephemeral nature of the wilderness things around me, and how to capture a sense of alchemy in the work I produced during my month on the island. I’d initially taken some photographic paper to make pin-hole cameras, but by playful disrupting the light sensitive material I could also make photograms, much like the early botanic camera-less photography of the 1800s. My old silver gelatin paper produced colourful images, enhanced by the changing light, long exposures and playful contaminations, and I liked the creature-like almost sci-fi aesthetic of the fantastical specimens that emerged on the paper from the things i’d foraged out the Loch.
To preserve the colours I decided to leave the paper unfixed and keep the latent images as lumen prints exactly as the sun had exposed them. As the photographic paper remains light-sensitive the images will fade away to nothing with continued exposure to daylight - so these works (that will be framed at some point) have been digitally scanned and the original silver gelatin print lives in a light-tight black bag.
The notion of venturing onto a wilderness island on my own to create a set of forever unfixed photographic works that can’t be shown to anyone seemed almost magic in itself.
> KNOTTED WRACK LUMEN
Seaweed placed across 4 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed across 4 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> THONGWEED & HOLDFAST LUMEN No.1
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> BADDERLOCKS (Alaria Esculenta an edible seaweed) LUMEN
Seaweed placed across 3 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed across 3 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> DABBERLOCKS (Alaria Esculenta an edible seaweed) LUMEN
Seaweed placed across 3 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed across 3 pieces of x 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> BLADDERWRACK LUMEN
Seaweed placed on a piece of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed on a piece of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> EGG WRACK LUMEN No.1
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> FUCUS SPIRALIS LUMEN
Seaweed placed on 2 pieces of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed on 2 pieces of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
> TOOTHED WRACK & HOLDFAST LUMEN N0.2
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
Seaweed placed on a piece of x 16x20 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine
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> OARWEED LUMEN
Seaweed placed on a piece of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine |
> ULVA LACTUA LUMEN
Seaweed placed on a piece of 8x10 inch silver gelatin photographic paper and exposed in Scottish sunshine |