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Perpetual Portal

SolaGrams created using light and camera

One of the artists who truly stood out to me when I first became interested in fine art photography was Man Ray.

His ‘Rayograms’ took the everyday process of printing from a film negative using an enlarger and created something spectacular – simply by removing the 35mm negative and replacing it with with relatively mundane items.

The items were transformed and rendered beautiful and mystical through re-contextualising and capturing their form through light and shade directly onto light sensative paper.

I wanted to explore further what the raw material of light could do on a more abstract level.
This series (As with a number of my abstract collections including Atomic Visions, Perpetual Portal and Crystal Nebula) uses just a light source, an aperture to create the forms and tones – the camera catches the results in much the same way that Man Ray’s photographic paper captured his work.

Expanding on Man Ray’s ‘Rayograms’ my SOLAgrams explore the limits of light.

The subjects and forms are utterly ephemeral – lasting mere moments – yet they leave a trace of the un-seen behind. Eternal forms, ghostly geometries and bold perspectives of the unseen.