Artifacts of photochemical processes and light on sheet film

I began my relationship with photography through analog thinking and processes. And I still derive a sensory pleasure from the materials of photography and revel in the labour of its processes. The focus of my current work explores new possibilities in photographic image making with an emphasis on the materiality of, and techniques with the medium through a conflation of analog photography processes with digital strategies to generate abstract images. These images are the result of cameraless techniques in which I assault large-format, 4x5 silver based, light-sensitive black and white sheet film with inappropriate methods, materials and light. A consequence of my techniques renders impermanent negatives that can only be captured through digital scanning. What began as a cultivation of mistakes and accidents, experiments and investigations into the potentialities of the medium, have now become a series of photographic images that are both documents of my performative experiences with the materials, as well as the artifacts of the processes and light.