I guess we photograph in an attempt to understand the impermanence of life, the transience of all things that cease to be, despite our desire to retain them, to keep them. But not even the photographic image is permanent or eternal. Without light there would be no photography. Without light there would be no day. Technology gives us the eternal day. There shall be no nights. Just the eternal light. And the illusion of infinite time. In this series the sun is no longer reflected light but an alchemical brush. To produce camera-less cyanotypes I use natural sunlight, salts, sea water and sand. I get out of the lab, away from my computer and cell phone. I work outside on an urban beach, and experience the contradictions of natural and built environments. Images result from this series of unpredictabilities.
