Elemental #209: Unknown Pleasures (View West of Moel Hebog, 2019)
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Beddgelert, Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom
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Found Materials
Copper rich stream water, mountain runoff, granite fragments, grass, sheep dung and wool fragments
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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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(C) Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. Process Patent Pending.
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******** Next Exhibition! **************************
Keep watching for news on my next exhibition!
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See & browse more at www.michaelrawling.com
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Saatchi Gallery: Buy these limited edition artworks from:
saatchigallery.michaelrawling.com/
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Buy prints from my Etsy shop:
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Or reach me via direct message!
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#instacool #instaart #film #modernart #35mm #artgallery #artcollector #chemical #art #artoftheday #filmsoup #alchemy #instagood #creative #contemporaryart #conceptualart #nophotoshop #nofilter #surreal #artwork #filmdestruction #experimentalfilm #landscape #artistsofinstagram #artistoninstagram #fineart #artist
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Elemental #209: Unknown Pleasures (View West of Moel Hebog, 2019)
Site
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom
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Found Materials
Copper rich stream water, mountain runoff, granite fragments, grass, sheep dung and wool fragments
.
.
.
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.
.
.
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.
.
.
(C) Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. Process Patent Pending.
.
******** Next Exhibition! **************************
Keep watching for news on my next exhibition!
****************************************************
.
See & browse more at www.michaelrawling.com
.
Saatchi Gallery: Buy these limited edition artworks from:
saatchigallery.michaelrawling.com/
.
Buy prints from my Etsy shop:
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Or reach me via direct message!
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#instacool #instaart #film #modernart #35mm #artgallery #artcollector #chemical #art #artoftheday #filmsoup #alchemy #instagood #creative #contemporaryart #conceptualart #nophotoshop #nofilter #surreal #artwork #filmdestruction #experimentalfilm #landscape #artistsofinstagram #artistoninstagram #fineart #artist
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