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

It was fired three times and glazed twice

Another shows a bright and sunny outside world that I seemed to be able to photograph

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

as well as carbon dioxide that was converted into carbon in that same period

I have travelled extensively around the world and have taken hundreds of photographs every day

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