Collection: Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawings

In this body of work. Each piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows as memory. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle photogram made not with light but with fossil carbon. Some pieces carry small scorch or burn marks where the smoke briefly ignited the paper, a visible memory of the heat that formed them.