portraits from the wrack line

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These photographs, which are taken without cameras, are lumen photographs with a difference. Lumens are typically made by exposing objects on old photographic paper under glass. These lumens, however, are made by exposing the paper in natural environments such as gardens, forests and salt marshes. What is recorded are the patterns of light and shadow that move across the paper over time.

In this new series of works,  still very much in the early stage of production, I examine the tiny beings (e.g. bryozoans) that thrive in the intertidal zone. Vulnerable to climate change, the small ones offer wonders and warnings if we take the time to pay attention to them. 

These pieces are process driven. They involve painstaking photographic stacking and then partial erasure. What is left behind are ghostly traces of the image's presence. These are transformed into maps of a newly explored and now-visible world.