...مِنْ أرشِيفْ مَشاعري

From the archive of my feelings
I remember when I found myself
Composed of thoughts that
decompose
like a rose

that rot from the inside
before out

Suspended between veils
Consumed
In peace and clean calm; serenity

The pain escaped through a crack that halved me
And the light seeped out of my skin
As my endless feelings bled from within

Is it strong enough to save me?

And when I was done
Crippled by my fingers I washed my hands clean
just as though nothing had happened

The pain evaporated as the light seeped out of my skin
and rose out of the paper
as it always does •

This work is a series of 12 prints that consist of 2 negatives layered and set in to the enlarger in a darkroom, with long exposure times of 500 – 1500 seconds (8 - 25 min). The negatives were shot with a large format film camera and black + white sheet film. The prints, produced using warmtone fibre based light sensitive photographic paper, are then processed in two different developers, before fixing and washing. The final result is a set of superimposed multi-layered veils, which are the parts of the images that appear only where the light can pass through both negatives.

silver gelatin prints
warmtone fibre
ed. of 1
20 x 24 "

2015

first place AJPA 2016 (link)

4x5