The Museum of Stones

“The Museum of Stones” is an exhibition of camera less photographs, made using experimental, alternative processes that combine cyanotypes, chemigrams and lumen prints. "The Museum of Stones" is about the small stones we pick up and carry with us as talismans for a specific place and time. Displayed around our homes, they become containers for memory. Picking up rocks is a way to give ourselves permission to pay attention to the world around. Each form is an interpretation of an actual rock I have found in the wild. I am not documenting these rocks, but using them to bridge your memories of rocks and my own. They then become portals between our own lived experiences. I use cyanolumen and chemigram processes because they create the visual texture of a rock surface. The flow of cyanotype, water and various salts mimics the formation of sedimentary rocks. The process is a delicate balance between chaos and control and is a parallel to the control we humans have over our own world.