Someone was singing an Arabic prayer2020
Artist statement: I chased the light for this photograph. The sun moved quickly across arid terrain. Shadows etched deeper with each passing moment in an ever-changing constellation of tessellated dunes, an exposé of matter’s inherent morphic freedom. Nature’s unapologetic reminder that even in apparent stillness everything is in constant motion, active, authoring and transactional, fluid and interdependent, continually transmuting. All is relationship.
As the sun set, I pondered what unspoken narratives might emerge from the shadows had they been given a voice. Silence is striking, the sound so sweet. The greatest journey is the one within. There the light is found.
This series is part of a conversation centred around social and ecological precarity and human connection with the inhabited world.
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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.
