Elemental #199: The portal opened on terrifying new reality

Site

Lake, East Uppsala, Sweden

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Found Materials

Lake water, reeds, pine bark minerals, sand

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What am I looking at?

Michael Rawling’s Elemental Series uses traditional film combined with Found Materials at every photograph’s location to create a new way of representing the landscape.

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How do you do this??

Tiny amounts of water, windfall organic and mineral samples are collected from the very landscape depicted within each picture - and chemically bonded with the film over ~12 months. The result: a developed film and unedited, printed images that are somewhere between a classic photographs & a totally abstract image, depicting the interaction between fundamental chemical elements present at each place & time, representing a more visceral and literal experience of being present in landscapes in a constant state of natural or unnatural flux.

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See more and buy at www.michaelrawling.com

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At the Saatchi Gallery: Buy these limited edition artworks framed at: www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/861831

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Buy prints from my Etsy shop: etsy.me/2NnhRCB

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