Natural Negatives

2022

8" × 10"

Silver Gelatin Print

filed in: 2022 Photo Image

Three 35mm specimens of nature put through a photographic enlarger. Each were collected at the Penland School of Crafts. Two of them have been carefully etched and poked with a pin depict Chinese characters.

A solarized and selectively developed photographic image of a leaf that has Chinese characters poked out of it.
A green leaf that has Chinese characters poked out of it.
A black and white photographic enlargement of a piece of mica that has a Chinese character etched into it.
two fingers hold up a piece of mica that has a chinese character for "earth" etched into it.
A small slice of lime that has been taped off with blue tape.
A solarized black and white image of an enlarged lime slice.