The Abstracted 35 Series
Ink, pigment, acetone, starch, stone dust on acetate. High Resolution Scans
A 35mm slide is a small window — a frame held up to the light and looked through. The Abstracted 35 Series works the other way round: the slide becomes something to look at. Ink and pigment are set reacting across a panel of acetate and left to settle, the whole reaction happening at a scale too small to read by eye.
Actual size
Each image begins as a 24×36mm panel of acetate — the image area of a single 35mm slide, held in a standard mount. The print is that same panel, set beside its original here so the difference is plain to see: the same image, at the scale the eye can finally meet it.
How the detail is revealed
Scanned at 4800dpi and enlarged, the slide discloses what was hidden in it — the chemistry made visible only by being made large.
Various Examples
