The Second Coming of the Sea People

Catchments

Catchments explores the role water plays as a collector through a repetitive and iterative process of sampling geographical information and physical matter. This work is inspired by Anton Kusters 'The Blue Skies Project' and its approach to documenting locations through the combination of abstract photography and geographical data. By harnessing the auto-creative properties of darkroom paper and through its abstract methodology of camera-less image making, Catchments challenges the human ontological notion that this planets waters are distinct and separate entities - instead championing the truth that our world is in fact a contiguous and deeply interconnected tapestry. This work is made with water as a co-collaborator, with the images themselves being created simply by exposing sheets of darkroom paper in bodies of water for set periods of time. The length of exposure and the co-ordinates where the work is created are also recorded. What is produced are experimental photogram negatives, which exists as physical records of the place, the water and all that was contained within. The images themselves are also physically unstable, reflecting the inherent fragility of this worlds water and introducing a level of parity between the two.