Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 002 Art or 300 year old particles

or 300 year old particles

It has a textured outside and a two chamber inside that was sculpted using the Japanese technique of Kurinuki

Also treated with Sumi and pollution ink at the base

especially at the very bottom of the bowl

Lisbon 2025

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 002 Art or 300 year old particlesEach 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