A moment came in the history of the universe where the first star burst into life. The death of this great star was a gift to the universe. It gave us all the atoms and molecules we needed to form other stars.

Time moves forwards as entropy increases and heat cools.

Our source of time is our own Sun. However, the first sun set time in motion in a way never before seen by that hot ocean of density.

The first Egyptian god, Atum, set the waters of Nun into motion. Before that there was no time.

I work in the darkroom where I hear only the swirling of my drum in the black water of my processing tank. I capture pieces of time filtered through the light of my enlarger, who is to me, my source of both light and time.

A halogen glow akin to the first sun - Atum Re

EXPERIMENTAL DARKROOM
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AM I A NUDIST?

When I was a child, playing in the gully, I was told by a teacher to put my top back on.

I looked at the boys, I looked at myself (at this age there was no visible difference between our chests). “Why?” I asked. “Because you are a girl”.

I pondered this, but it didn’t stop me jumping into lakes naked on school trips.

My mother received complaints she never bothered to pass on to me.

Well yes, stood on the top of a cliff, clad in nothing but sky, there are few greater feelings.

Or lying naked in moss and pine needles and knowing that I am of the earth beneath me,

I have never felt more beautiful.

And on those dark wine nights where the party moves slightly wilder and I am in the company of all my nude friends, I look around and see how everyone’s body is as unique as their face and we are all animals of the earth playing and wonderful and I want to paint every single one of us.

You are all perfect to me.

j a p a n e s e a c i d m o u n t a i n .

OTHER WORLDS IN URINE

This is my latest series in creation - ‚Other Worlds‘.
Created through a technique called souping, this negative was soaked in urine and menstrual blood for two weeks before hand processing.

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EXPERIMENTAL DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY

AM I A NUDIST?

OTHER WORLDS IN URINE

EXPERIMENTAL DARKROOM
PHOTOGRAPHY