Residue Prints

1998 - 

         Through the course of being used by tradespeople or being part of the environment of industry the chosen objects have accrue the soil, grease, dust and dirt of activity. Horseshoes, work gloves, a leather welder's jacket from a demolished shipyard, hand-forged nails or a window embedded with heavy metals are some of teh subject materials.

        Moisture and sunlight transfer this evidence of labour onto watercolour paper. This is accomplished by arranging the artifacts on the paper and leaving them outdoors for a year. The particulates the various objects exhaust onto the bright white surface appear as reds and blue-blacks from iron oxides and umbers from grease and earth. From the surroundings there are yellows from spring pollen and warm blacks from trees overhead or autumn seeds.