Entering the light

Last night brought the spring equinox, today we wake to spring! To celebrate the light, I’ve added some of the lumen prints I’ve been working on to my website. They are literally made from stars: silver coated paper exposed to sun over time. Falling photons, their last breath after a million years of life inside the sun, darken the paper where they land. Flowers leave a signature of the growing season in negative space and ethereal shadow. Snow, rain, iron are added to the paper, the alchemical reaction of these elements revealing hidden swirls of color, pools of dark and light.

Each print is made by placing plants on photographic darkroom paper and exposing the arrangement to the light of the sun. Not a photograph, but a record of an unseen world of color, the visible alchemical reaction of light.

I’m just getting back on schedule after a difficult February, so I’m keeping it short this time around. The Cape is turning to spring and there is work in the garden to do; I’ll have lots to report next time around. See you in a couple of weeks, friends.