While working on But then one day I asked the sun, I began collecting colored soils and rocks and experimenting with them in the context of my photographic practice. I made pigments and then oil glazes and egg tempera with them and coated first prints.
At first I used photographs of the locations where I found them, landscape photos, and descriptions of places as motifs for my work. Finally, I also documented the color production, process sequences, and the soil itself in the various intermediate stages.
By photographing the soils and rocks directly, fractals of the landscape appeared and a transformation of the actual material into a place began. A monochrome image of the material is coated with itself, reproduced in its own color, and finally materially finds its way into the final work.
work in progress
pigment prints on Moab Entrada Rag Natural
varnished, 48 x 40 cm, unicums