The Polaroid acts as a transitional space in the process, framing the materiality and the impulsively selected elements. Transforming them in scale and quality, a reproduction not taking away from but creating a new aura. The selection of Polaroid as a medium is a conscious choice, a selection of the old, the fragile and in some ways the ephemeral. The use of old technology with a time expiration a control provided by the medium not one that can be adapted or changed. The material chemicals change in the life span of the image, the layers of emulsion replicate the build up of residue produced by charcoal. The image hangs onto aspects of the material elements of the original but the reproduction becomes of value both aesthetically and monetary. The photograph not only acts as an index of events but its framed white lines select and point out the imperfection in the process, the materially. The use of expired film also releases control over to a chemical process not only affected by my handling of it but the material used to replicate images. Mistakes can be as beautiful as the correct. Transferred onto glass it allows the viewer to see all layers of imagery, the emulsion trace becomes part of surface pattern, something that perhaps should have been removed during the process but I have kept. The square lift sits on a square frame, a circle interrupts the image.
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