Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 004 ceramics cold press (grana fina)

cold press (grana fina)

These photographs are the Particles of Light

It is stamped with the seal I had made in Tokyo in 2009

Four weeks of working with clay

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 004 ceramics cold press (grana fina)Each 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