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Translucent exposures
I love the rich ambiguity that arises in written language and this enjoyment extends into the visual language of my photographic artwork. My current touring exhibition, 'Translucent Exposures', consists entirely of photograms. The fascination of these images for me is the combination of a precise descriptive response to the relationship between light and subject, together with the surprisingly ambiguous qualities emerging from the process. The images, as a result, are open to multiple interpretation. Light from a simple source, refracted by common glassware and water, yields strange precipitations on light-sensitive paper. The very latest work, In the dark, is a three-panel installation of photograms mapping the skin of a female body as, pressing against photographic paper, it spreads a film of water. The exposures re-present qualities of human flesh, tracing movement, contour and spatial relationship. They are life-drawings made with water and light. I explore the mysterious nature of light. I feel a sense of awe about this phenomenon which animates life, and is the means by which we experience the visual world. Transparency is the heart of my process, my personal obsession....
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