Evening Beech trees reflected in a calm, valley river, looking north towards Sarratt Elemental #123:

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

Elemental #123: Evening Beech trees reflected in a calm, valley river, looking north towards Sarratt.

Location

Chess Valley, Hertfordshire, South East England

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Found Materials

River water, moss, wild watercress, reeds, algae, lichen. 

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.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. 

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How do you 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