Weathering, To Form More Time

Weathering, To Form More Time contemplates the temporality of the body and its intrinsic interconnectedness with the cosmic landscape. Photographic impressions of the artist's breath are suspended in frost, fingerprints are encased in layers of smoke soot, preserving traces of presence and touch. These encapsulated fleeting gestures are paired with a selection of collaged images of distant planets and moons coupled with found poetry redacted from a vintage book on planetary science. The photographs exhibited were created using a traditional analog photographic darkroom, light is manipulated and harnessed to capture the most nuanced traces left behind. Several photographs have been re-exposed to fire light with a candle flame through a technique called solarization. A transformation in tones and shifting textures is caused by the natural chemical reaction of fire to light sensitive paper. Using a 19th Century printing method called cliché-verre, soot is gathered upon glass from the same flame used to layer richly deep black monotypes atop the photographic prints. Microscopic residues of the body begin to mimic the hardened textures of distant planets, while words—redacted from scientific research and speculation—come to imitate the aging and weathering of our own bodies, inviting for quiet reflections on the brevity of mortality and the unseen passages of time. Weathering, To Form More Time contributes to critical dialogues around environmental precarity, bodily vulnerability and humanity's evolving perception of time and scale. Together, the works form a meditation on presence, transformation, and endurance, where the smallest traces of the body are held in tension with the immeasurable scale of the cosmos. This exhibition offers a space to contemplate impermanence and interdependence, and consider how fleeting gestures, natural processes, and celestial cycles are deeply entwined.