Project Description

Welcome to ‘The Experimental Realm' – a place somewhere between photography, chemistry and cartography.

Chance Topographies is an ongoing series of experimental works created through the interaction of photographic chemicals, oxidising agents and pigment inks. I left these in a tray outside and let nature take its course. Sun, air, rain, time. Things reacted, shifted, and eventually dried out. I didn’t try to control it too much. As such, each composition was formed by chemical reactions rather than deliberate image-making. It’s a process where pigments shifted, water evaporated, and colours oxidised over time.

The resulting surfaces resembled maps or aerial landscapes, so I photographed them and built on that idea adding names of the people and processes that shaped it. Every mark, bloom, and border emerged from an unpredictable process of both control and accident. I titled the resulting maps 'The Experimental Realm' – a place somewhere between photography, chemistry and cartography.

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