Alternative photographic processes - such as soil chromatography, cyanotype and anthotype - serve as receptors for reconnecting with the landscape of the Anthropocene, both above and below the surface. Encounters with materials and entanglements within my immediate surroundings are transformed into traces, or traces of voids.
Soil Blooms (2023)
13 soil chromatograms, magnets.
These chromatograms are pictographs of the soil around where I live, like photographic portraits of the health of the land. At their centre are the heavy metals, reverberating out through capillary action into organic and bacterial matter. The frilly edges where the silvernitrate solution stops the soil from moving any further, a physical boundary that helps frame the information.