At the water’s edge before the darkness comes

The images seen in my work are etched by fire, not by a pigment sitting on a surface. A technique normally associated with secret correspondence used in the past, called “aburi-dashi” in Japanese. Invisible Ink made with lemon juice is used to render images, slightly altering the delicate balance of paper, once exposed to the heat images are burnt into paper as an integral part of its structure. The resulting image contains a level of fragility and notion of death within it by nature.
In my work the connotation of transience associated with the methodology is important as it highlights a position at the opposite end of spectrum from the monumentalism, even though the actual physicality of the work endures.
The importance of the notion of ephemeral has been acutely felt through the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear disaster which was triggered by earthquake and tsunami. It has highlighted a environmental landscape on the blink of a catastrophic paradigm change, and the fragility of our existence on this planet.