Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 007 Art while the right panel appears

while the right panel appears to be nature emerging from darkness

I play with the emotion of the sky we rarely see and also with the interpretation of a colour first given a name at the beginning of the 20th century

or the abstract representation of that

I looked at the photographs again and again over the years and they did not in any way matched the reality I had experienced

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 007 Art while the right panel appearsEach 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