This new series, “Alchemy: Mark-Making”, explores my disconnect, as a visual artist, between the original physical process of my darkroom art-making and the newer act of, primarily, digital expression. So, once again, I work with chemistry and photographic paper, without the use of a photographic image this time, and create camera-less images or, what are known as, chemigrams. Where digital practice offers refinement and exactitude, this work embraces instability, chance, and transformation as generative forces.

Organic forms emerge on the paper as though the image is being uncovered rather than constructed… as a collaboration between artist and material. It is guided as much by observation as by intervention. And for me, as an artist, it reignites a passion for experimentation and serendipity within an environment of controlled chaos. Colors and subtle tones surface on the black and white photo paper that often fade with time. This fugitive quality is central to the work and takes me deeper into the exploration of permanence and impermanence. The series occupies a space between surrender and control, permanence and disappearance.