Birnbeck Pier - Soaked in Seawater
The study has a photographic means, based on ideas and experimentation, using chromogenic paper, a conceptual link between the topic and the material employed in the process and treatment of the prints.
The physical elements of the subject are incorporated into the image, through the procedure of soaking the images in sea water, which was collected from the Bristol Channel, which surrounds Birnbeck Pier. Sea water has been one of the main factor’s that has helped cause the pier to erode and become derelict.
The salt, sediments and bacteria in the seawater begin to eat away the structure of the print, this process can take days or weeks, and other constituents that aid to the process is humidity and fluctuations in temperature. The seawater alters, obscures and distresses the images, so reconfiguring the layers of emulsion, sculpting the image, no print is flawless or identical, embracing the uncertainty of the process, to create a unique image, an object.
What you are left with, are psychedelic impressions, with a deep and varied palette of hues, distorting and distressing the image, processing the images with the same effects of erosion that the pier has become accustomed to.
Read MoreThe physical elements of the subject are incorporated into the image, through the procedure of soaking the images in sea water, which was collected from the Bristol Channel, which surrounds Birnbeck Pier. Sea water has been one of the main factor’s that has helped cause the pier to erode and become derelict.
The salt, sediments and bacteria in the seawater begin to eat away the structure of the print, this process can take days or weeks, and other constituents that aid to the process is humidity and fluctuations in temperature. The seawater alters, obscures and distresses the images, so reconfiguring the layers of emulsion, sculpting the image, no print is flawless or identical, embracing the uncertainty of the process, to create a unique image, an object.
What you are left with, are psychedelic impressions, with a deep and varied palette of hues, distorting and distressing the image, processing the images with the same effects of erosion that the pier has become accustomed to.
