In this body of work. Each piece begins as a watercolour drawing, it is then exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing. That intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows as memory on the final drawing. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle photogram made not with light but with fossil carbon. It is the energy of the sun, only had been dormant for 300 Million years. It is the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere from that time too. Some pieces carry small scorch or burn marks where the smoke briefly ignited the paper, a visible memory of the heat that formed them.
Some of the individual drawings are available for sale here>>>
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