Solution of Silver of White Light
This series of artworks makes durable some ephemeral moments of personal transformation from experience of place, play, and personal connection. These artworks value intuition, non-rational knowledge, empiric knowledge, and place attachment. My work refutes the colonial, Western, objective and quantitative, perspective of knowledge.
The title of this series plays off the name of Solution of Sulphur of White Light, one of the steps listed in Samuel Norton’s alchemical texts representing personal and spiritual transmutation and individuation. Silver nitrate, dye washes and video are used to create a saturated alchemy of image and material. Sunlight, salt and fire are used to speed a change in the silver, analogous to personal transformations.
Waves, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, projected video, 22 x 60 inches, 2012
A Way Through, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, 7.5 x 22.5 ft, 2012
A Way Through, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, 7.5 x 22.5 ft, 2012
Alice, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, silver nitrate, projected video 7.5 x 15 ft, 2012
Alice, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, silver nitrate, projected video, 7.5 x 15 ft, 2012
Houses, Screen print on canvas wrapped panel, Venetian plaster, graphite, 24 x 32 in, 2017.
Untitled, At Play, Screen print, silver nitrate and salt, 22 x 30 inches, 2012
Untitled 2, At Play, Screen print, silver nitrate and salt, 22 x 30 inches, 2012
Untitled 3, At Play, Screen print, silver nitrate and salt, 22 x 30 inches, 2012
Winters End, Archival ink-jet from 4 x 5 negative, 4 x 5 feet, 2012
Untitled, Place, Screen print, silver nitrate and salt, 22 x 30 inches, 2012
Ben, Screen print, salted paper print, dye, silver nitrate, projected video. 7.5 x 11 ft, 2012