Ancestors, 2020. (West from Merlin’s Cave, Cornwall) Elemental #239:

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

Site

Tintagel Haven, Tintagel, North Cornwall, South West UK

Found Materials

Celtic Sea water, sand, shell fragments, lichen.

 

How does the artist do this?

Minute amounts of water, windfall samples - organic and mineral - 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 photograph and 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.