This project builds from Helios, where I hit the limits of photographic materiality. Rather than stay within them, I pushed past them, beyond both analogue and digital process. Through research into materiality, I developed Organ I, a fragile form made out of soduim alginate and injected with liquid emulsion, exposed in three dimensions

tOrgan (Death) I came from the feeling that Organ I wasn’t the final work. It sat closer to a latent image than a finished piece. To resolve it, I sliced the form and placed it directly onto 20×24 inch Ilford fibre-based paper, producing a photogram from its remains. The print above is completely unique, formed through that single act, and can’t be replicated in the same way again.

THE Organ II runs deeper into the idea of looking past the frame, shifting focus onto how the ocean can be understood as an environment closer to space, something a photograph can never fully hold. To push this, I followed the same process as Organ I, but introduced iron wool into the form. It was then left submerged for 25 hours in a crab trap, allowing a latent image to form through the conditions it was exposed to, before becoming Organ (Death) II.