Of Flesh That Withers and Bones That Remember the Soil Where She Belongs

Chemically altered silver gelatin print series, 10 x 15 cm, 2025

This series of photographs uses the mordançage process to chemically alter the printed image, transforming the surface of the photograph through lifting, erosion, and veiling. The process alters the image by allowing parts of the emulsion to detach and reform as fragile, translucent layers across the surface.
The resulting prints are monochromatic, with areas of bleaching and oxidised staining, and an orange - brown toned gradient. The forms in the photographs become partially obscured, as though they were dissolving.
The lily is a central image in the series, alongside the figures depicted in the other images, seemingly rotting away into obscurity. As the images erode within the surface of the print, they become symbols of mortality, transformation, and return to the earth, evoking a sense of mourning through the alteration of the photographic surface.