Project Description

In these ‘maps’, geography is an accident of process. Pigment, water, photographic chemicals and light find their own direction, charting a world where control dissolves into transformation.

Chance Topographies is an ongoing series of experimental works created through the interaction of photographic chemicals, pigments, light, and acrylic mediums. Each composition is formed by chemical reaction rather than deliberate image-making. It’s a process where pigments shift, water evaporates, and colours oxidise over time.

The resulting surfaces resemble maps or aerial landscapes, yet they are records of reaction and transformation, not depictions of real places. Every mark, bloom, and border emerges from an unpredictable process that sits somewhere between control and accident. By working with materials that respond to light, the environment and each other, the images document the chemistry of their own creation.

These works continue my exploration of cameraless photography extending it into the realm of cartography and surface geology. Each piece captures a moment of change, a fragment of terrain generated by exposure, chance, and time inviting viewers to read the abstract traces of chemistry as landscapes of process.

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Fragments of Place