Sunday, 2 April 2017

Photograms : Contact Photography

When you make photograms, without the use of a camera, you can indeed call that abstract photography, as the lens and the corresponding registration medium are lacking. No longer do you have pictures of reality or objects; you only have their shadows. It is a bit like Plato’s cave, where one could only imagine reality; the objects themselves were not visible.
—Thomas Ruff

Photogram from Victorian corset.

Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram

Camera Obscura : Interior of the Pottery at Kilquhanity

Spatial Photogram


























Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Blueprints : Anthropological Forms

We sense the reality of something precious and mysterious, which reaches out to us with a claim that is in some way not of this world.

This is no longer a person, but the 'mortal remains' of a person. And this thought fills us with a sense of the uncanny.



The body is being reclaimed for this world, by the rituals which acknowledge that it  also stands apart from it.

The human form is sacred for us because it bears the stamp of our embodiment.

Beauty, Roger Scruton

Botanical traces with leper graves
Cyanotype material on paper 1400x2400cm