Title: Cryogram #1, 2016
First Edition of 6 + 1AP
Dimensions: 770mm x 680mm x 45mm
Materials: Chroma print on mountboard, charred Plywood & Tulip and Tung Oil.

Cryograms

Cryograms are the frozen negative of a pyrogram. Together, they represent the conditions of life of plants and animals in subarctic and arctic Boreal forests.

The negative emulsions from the pyrogram series were placed outdoors overnight in freezing air. The exposure to sub-zero boreal air created a negative pair of the pyrographic positive image as a monochromatic crystallisation.

Close up of Cryogram #1 showing the blistering effect open flame.

Detail of Cryogram #1.

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

Combustion Series, Boreal Forest, Fort McMurray, Canada. (Copy) (Copy)

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Pyrograms

Lumsden Hotel, Southland, New Zealand