2018-22
on-going series.
Digital prints on paper.
Archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310gsm
95 by 95cm
Prints enlarged from 10 by 10cm original prints/transfer taken directly from a bus window.
Using techniques similar to taking fingerprints I’ve been collecting the grease marks left by passenger’s hair on bus windows.
The grease marks are brushed with powered charcoal, that charcoal is then lifted from the window with sticky back plastic. The charcoal copy is scanned, enlarged and printed.
Reprinted/reversioned they resemble an etchings, or maybe star maps, or something like an action painting.
But they are fundamentally just traces of people moving through a city, small records of a surface touching another, hair touching glass and the residues left behind.