Elemental #216: Mercury. The view down the Fuorn valley, 2017.

Site: South east of Zernez, Fuorn Pass, eastern Switzerland, Europe.

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Found materials: Mountain stream water, high altitude standing water, snow, weathered rock minerals, chalk & lichens, flowering mountain heather.

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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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Saatchi Gallery: Buy this limited edition artwork from:

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Or commission me via direct message.

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