Imitation of One Surface Only

'Imitation of One Surface Only' is an experimental duration cyanotype piece considering the potential of the alternative process as a performance, painting, sculpture and a photographic process, used to capture a time based experience - the unrepresentable subject revealed during the process of learning. Cyanotype paper rolls were exposed to light for the duration of Peckham 24 festival, London. Laid under the chairs for the festivals' public programme of talks, the public inhabited the light sensitive paper whilst being present, listening and learning in the space. Scanned sections of paper, simultaneously empty and full of visual information capture a type of a photographic blur. Though the line between figuration and abstraction is obscured, something was there and existed. Whilst excess light reduces the image, the limitations of photography imbued in over exposure in this case open up the image to a play of association. The failure of the process becomes a solution for the problem of representation of the subject matter, presence surpassing representation. The submitted images are part of a larger investigation into the experience of being and learning through photography.