Developing bath – nest reimagined:
Series of studies on fibers, bundles, nests made of tangled grass/weed left behind by the fifth season floods, combed by water, and printed /developed in monotype.
A nest itself as such is a developing bath, incubator, a vessel, a container. Of thin and fragile material, a line that becomes dense and multidirectional, voluptuous, it becomes continuous tissue, not only structure but environment, perturbed system.
To the rhythm of its own the thin lines react, to own strength and weakness, rapid and slow they curve, and curve again, and recurve, turn and turn over, they excess and exaggerate, grow and accumulate, proliferate and bifurcate, expand and branch, from singular to multiplicity, from surface to structure, from gravity to grace, overgrowing, overflowing, overwhelming, folding into more and more folds, into a reef, tangling with itself, the battling lianas.
Finally, like in wonderment, surprised by its own taxonomy, it is there, the nest, like uroboros, swallowing its own tail, like a circular river without outlets or sources, like an exotic charm of another thought, another system of thought, showing us the limitation of ours.
The fleeing technique of Monotype is used as a photographer’s developing bath, incubator, images can never be exactly repeated, making them unique.
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