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Breakthrough

I’m a bit of a scavenger, always have been.
 
In recent years, this has bled into my arts practice.
 
Derelict buildings, detritus washed up in bays and on the seashore. These are the places I wander in the hope of seeing something I want to add to my collection of ‘found items’.
 
My collection is eclectic and includes natural and man-made objects such as leaves, insects, bleached bones, industrial debris.
 
From time to time I would photograph these objects in situ. But I was increasingly dissatisfied with the results I was getting with digital photography.
 
So, I took my treasures home. And they gathered dust – some serving as occasion
al props in the arts practice I tried to build based on digital photography.
 
2014 was a year of revelation. I discovered wet collodion photography. The feel, the sm
ell, the tactile nature of this process recalled for me the feeling of handling the objects I wanted to preserve photographically – with each of them I had experienced a unique sensory experience. Wet collodion is equally a sensory experience.
 
My early results were crude and in some respects disappointing. But even then I could see that I had found the medium through which I could express the character of my found objects.

Leave it be

15/2/2017

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Over the years I have found I need to let my work alone once it is first made. I am often disappointed by my first impression, but have found almost without fail that when I come back to images after days, weeks, months or even years, I view my work with less immediate emotional attachment, and appreciate them much more. I made these wet plates over 6 months ago, and they have sat in my plan cabinet since. Today I pulled them all out to select some that I might want to enter in an art prize and was pleasantly surprised. I am happy with this series as it is so far and liked the way many of the images worked together. #Wet Plate

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