Artist Statement
I have explored multiple photographic processes in my search for a photographic image that lives on the surface of the paper, rather than within it like a gelatine-silver print. Non-silver processes such as Gum Bichromate printing and Cyanotype alongside silver-based processes like VanDyke prints, and Polaroid transfer, manifests these qualities of physicality and surface. My explorations resulted in my marking and defacing the negatives then staining and toning the prints. By the mid 1990s, this alternative photographic language moved me towards my current printmaking practice using photogravure.