Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 011 drawing A strange dance of darkness

A strange dance of darkness and complexity

This one is from a car journey in Fortaleza

This print is  here is the one with the bear walking down a burned trunk of a tree

Above the triptych are 9 images

Not for regular modern kitchen treatment

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 011 drawing A strange dance of darknessEach piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot, or 300 year old particles, reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle