Artist statement: Our collaboration explores associative links between a series of binaries: events and reconstructions, experiences and recollections, land and sea, drawing with pencil and drawing with light. The work consists of a topographical graphite drawing of entangled branches on Gun Island, Western Australia, directly onto a photograph of nearby Half-Moon Reef. In 1727 the Dutch ship Zeewijk wrecked on the reef and the survivors were stranded on Gun Island for ten months, during which time the first recorded sodomy trial in Australia occurred, as documented in the ship's log. The final work becomes a reflection on the process of assembling a narrative from an archive and the traces, overlaps, imprints and embellishments such an exercise can entail.
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Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
