ABSTRACT
Abstract is an analog experiment exploring light as a physical, unpredictable force acting directly on film. Using my father’s Canon AE-1 with Kodak Portra 400, I open the back of the camera at the same precise time of day, while standing in many locations, on different days and years worldwide, allowing light, atmosphere, and place to strike the emulsion without mediation.Each exposure becomes a record of its environment: colour temperature, humidity, altitude, and intensity imprint themselves as burns, veils, and shifting spectrums.
What would be considered technical “errors” turn into defining elements, making each negative a singular, irreproducible artifact.By repeating the same gesture globally. Abstract studies how the Earth’s conditions inscribe themselves onto the body of the film. Imperfections, colour shifts, and fogging are embraced as part of the work’s meaning, revealing a tactile collaboration between human intention, material vulnerability, and the uncontrollable presence of light.
