Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue2022
Artist statement: This work, called Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue, evolved from my AAD Fellowship at Casey Station, Antarctica in January 2022.
My work is always about bringing us into an intimate experience of nature, revealing our interconnected relationship with it. The experience and opportunity being within the nature of Antarctica was quite overwhelming.
This distilled within me an extreme experience of blueness and a haunting of the memory in ice, as I considered the dramatic climate change occurring there. Inside my studio in the science laboratory, I created experiments of melting glacial ice as a metaphor for the larger ice cap melts, these I have photographed to document very directly; they act as a record mapping the melting ice.
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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.
