DEPARTURES
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These small, constructed flight assisting objects, are things I constantly re-visit.

With chemistry in mind………..

On a table outside in the sunshine playing with a dart flight, photographic paper lying out of the box.

The separated segments are pressed onto the paper’s surface beneath small squares of glass.

Watching as images form.

Photographs are made, the paper put back in a box, and as no chemicals are used, the paper is still light responsive so awareness is needed of the number of times they are viewed in ‘daylight’…they are constantly changing…a chemical interaction brought about by sunlight.

With more chemistry in mind…..

Experiments were made using photo fixer and developer on photographic paper in daylight. I used an hexagonal coaster (that echoed the shape used in some of the ‘Hybrid ‘series) along with a square of glass from an old slide carrier and applied chemicals to the surface before pressing onto the paper and leaving in the light to re-act.

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I now began to think of a way that I could ‘apply’ the fixer and developer in a more ‘automatic’ less controlled manner.

I thought of dropping it onto the paper surface but maybe this still involved some sort of ‘skill’. (!)

I decided to try and freeze the chemicals and simply leave them in the centre of a piece of photographic paper.

The form taken would be to a greater or lesser extent determined by temperature and the topological layout of the underlying surface. I had as a student had a strong interest in some of the ideas epitomised by the fluxus movement, Jon Cage and more recently William Anastasi so I guess I felt myself in good company…………

The fixative proved harder to freeze than the developer but after a bit of experimentation both chemicals formed solid ice cubes. (Interestingly the shape of the individual cells in the tray was hexagonal which echoed the shape I had been using in both the hybrid series and the coaster used for the chemical transfer in the photo paper experiments.)

The photographs that follow are of the various ‘cube’ permutation and placements.

(in progress…………)