This body of work began last semester with an interest in alternative ways to expose or create an image on photographic paper without the use of the traditional negative and enlarger set-up. This interest originated from the artists fascination with the history of the process / science of photography.
Photography has, even before its invention, always been divided into two parts, the optics and the chemistry. It was not until the chemistry could permanently fix the image that photography, as we know it was invented in 1839. This dual-nature inherent in photography cried out to be separated. The artist had just been introduced to printmaking techniques and felt the similarities between that medium and the printing / chemistry side of photography needed to be explored. With this work being the second incarnation of the fore-mentioned method.