Embodied Shadow. Large format film alongside light-sensitive photographic paper, exposed as lumen prints and left unfixed. Temporarily lit by a slide projector, 2023.
Embodied Shadow. Detail image, body obscuring the projector light beam, 2023.
Embodied Shadow. Large format film alongside contact print from medium format negative on light-sensitive photographic paper. Exposed as lumen prints and left unfixed, 2023.
Master of Fine Arts
Embodied Shadow engages with cameraless and archaic modes of photographic making. It documents experiences of collaboration as my bodily surface folds against light-sensitive emulsion on expired photographic film and paper. Imprinting my touch suggests time’s ephemerality in remembering through the medium of photography. Exposed as lumen prints, left without chemical fixtures, these personal recollections gradually fade. As this fugitive diary is revealed in the light, the impermanent archive will cascade to be only an afterimage.