Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 011 featured It was fired three times

It was fired three times and glazed twice

this photograph here is like a piece of raw material

000 years old

This one here is taken at the MET in New York City

Once it was bisque fired it was then glazed and finally treated with semi ink to highlight some of the crackle glaze

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 011 featured It was fired three timesEach piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot, or 300 year old particles, reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle