The ‘Colour Opacities’ are a series of hand printed C-Type photograms of obscured glass. In complete darkness within the darkroom, the sheets of glass act as compound lenses, fracturing and refracting light from the enlarger to specific focal points directly onto light sensitive paper.
Through developing the ‘Opacities’ series in the black and white darkroom using colourless glass I realised that the images I had created were actually negatives. Having access to a colour darkroom, I began experimenting with coloured/ stained glass to see if I would also get the colour in negative. This was the case for the most part, however, what most interested me was what was unexpected. Deep magenta glass became vivid greens and neon yellow bleeding onto the bare photographic paper.
The ambiguity of the image seems to free the viewer from the ties that these different image expectations make, allowing the viewer a freedom for imaginary projection. The images of glass seem to reveal something of that exact same ambiguity in the photographic image, their simultaneous crystalline fixity and organic fluidity, as one medium of transparency creates an image of itself in another medium of transparency.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.
Colour Opacity (2024) 29.8cm x 35cm C-type photogram.