NATURES MARK
For stage two, I loved the idea from Candy Jernigan of showing evidence of where you have been by the things you find. So instead of me finding and creating evidence of the locations I've been at, I thought it would be interesting to let nature from the routes I had been walking collaborate and produce an abstract medium.
contact sheets
USING THE DARKROOM
Using the dark room, I created digital negatives. I did this by using these processes;
Firstly, inverted my photographs on photoshop and then printed it out on acetate paper. After that, I took the photos to the darkroom and started with test strips. This was to test the correct exposure time for the photographic paper, increasing by two seconds each time.
You can see the effects of this below:
Results:
Pouring reservoir water over the light sensitive paper to see the reaction of nature on the page. Sadly, the water did not take to the photographs so in the 15 hour exam I'm going to further develop these by mixing vegetable oil with the reservoir water to create a digital negative of the water droplets to then layer over the photos.
STEPHEN GILL
To experiment further with immersing prints into the location of where the photos are taken to create a sense of 'evidence', I looked at Stephen Gill's buried and how he uses the dirt to create a collaboration between himself and nature.
PROCESS
Results:
I like the way these polaroids turned out as you can really see the effect of natural elements on the photos; wether it be the most obvious of the visual dirt and mud, the leaking ink or the watercolour effect on the original image. It truly shows the traces nature has left behind.