Primordial Soup

Year: 2024
Size: A3 (42x29.7cm)
Materials: photo-etching on Somerset White 300 gsm paper, series of 10

Everything new is made from preexisting components. This work merges elements from the Carboniferous period with modern technologies. The original image was created by scanning bituminous coal and overlaying it on a chemigram developed with a plant-based solution.

The print you see is the result of almost alchemical processes that involved boiling the developer, etching a zinc plate in acid, soaking the paper in water, and, of course, cooking coal rocks from what was once a swamp.