Dalmatian coast Elemental #1,

The actual photographs are printed on A4 matt photographic paper and mounted on card measuring 35cm by 28cm.  

Location: Poluotok Lapad, Dubrovnik,Croatia.

Found materials: Lake & iron rich stream water, grasses, wild herbs, coastal flora.

What am I looking at?

Michael Rawling’s Elemental Series uses traditional film combined with Found Materials at every photograph’s location to create a new way of representing the landscape.

How does the artist do this?

Tiny amounts of water, windfall organic and mineral samples are collected from the very landscape depicted within each picture - and chemically bonded with the film over ~12 months. The result: a developed film and unedited, printed images that are somewhere between a classic photographs & a totally abstract image, depicting the interaction between fundamental chemical elements present at each place & time, representing a more visceral and literal experience of being present in landscapes in a constant state of natural or unnatural flux.

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