About the work
Sunday, 4 June 2023, 09:15 to 09:35. Looking for gaps in the cloudy morning sky, the artist waits for the sun. A 150 × 200 cm sheet of watercolour paper has been coated with the light-sensitive solution and dried. An acrylic glass panel of the same size lies on top, carrying the motif on self-adhesive window film: an unusual self-portrait of the artist, black on transparent film. Everything is packed light-tight in a large cardboard box, ready to be handed over to the developer, the sun.
The sun appears. The box is opened, light falls through the film onto the coated paper, and within seconds the pale yellow-green surface begins to turn silver-green, reaching a deep green-blue after almost twenty minutes. Then every second counts: the 25 kg panel is lifted off and the paper washed out, until the Prussian blue develops.
One of the oldest printing processes, realised in large format and set in an awareness of cyclical time. The sun, a life-giving force that surrounds us every day; the earth, which revolves around it and around itself, creates time. We humans are often far removed from these cycles, from the now of time and nature.
Credits
Shown at LURX Festival, Pflersch, IT (2023) and in (UN)GESEHEN, Galerie Das Zimmer, Salzburg, AT (2024).