Nexus Elemental #79:

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

Location: Woburn Abbey, Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, MK17 9W

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

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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.

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(C) Copyright 2017. All Rights Reserved. Process Patent Pending