Kitchen Cosmos series
Working with waste from the kitchen sink on photographic black and white paper to make 'lumen' prints. When exposed to daylight over a number of hours wonderful pinks emerge. If they are fixed photographically the pinks disappear, so I keep them in the dark and scan them to dry to preserve the colours. The resulting prints are exhibited as A4 giclee Hahnemule Bamboo works.
Kitchen Cosmos 1
Shown in Alchemical (2023), at Gallery 475 in Fulham, London, an ArtCan show curated by Catherine Sweet.
I exhibited both the original, unfixed lumen print (right) together with Kitchen Cosmos 1 (left) in this show. Kitchen Cosmos 1 highlighted the alchemical process of the domestic sink waste chemically interacting with the silver nitrate in the black and white paper. I also showed the original unfixed lumen print in Alchemical, which changed over the duration of the exhibition as the black and white paper was exposed to daylight.
Shown in Alchemical (2023), at Gallery 475 in Fulham, London, an ArtCan show curated by Catherine Sweet.
I exhibited both the original, unfixed lumen print (right) together with Kitchen Cosmos 1 (left) in this show. Kitchen Cosmos 1 highlighted the alchemical process of the domestic sink waste chemically interacting with the silver nitrate in the black and white paper. I also showed the original unfixed lumen print in Alchemical, which changed over the duration of the exhibition as the black and white paper was exposed to daylight.
Kitchen Cosmos 1, A4 Giclée photographic print on museum quality Hahnemühle Bamboo, A4 (made from a scan of the original lumen print, preserving the intensity of colour. Edition of 30 & 1 A/P.
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Original lumen print after a week of exposure during the Alchemical exhibition (with the original print made by placing kitchen waste on black and white photograph paper and exposing it to daylight over a four hour period).
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