Individual Residencies
2023 | Flora DeBechi
My work is concerned with the potential of raw materials, from microcosm to macrocosm in differing states of flux.
Engaging with processes of capturing, waiting and transformation, works span the mediums of sculpture, video, sound, and installation. Observation and engagement with different ideas of time in terms of landscape informs process and ways of living. I am interested in exploring different interactions with time through moving image both in digital and analogue mediums.
I used the period in residence for reflection and experimental research focussing on early windows and Argyrotype photography made from natural incidental light; Argyrotype photography is an early form of photography where the coated paper becomes dark when in contact with UV light. This alchemical process creates a synchronous appearing and disappearing of sunlight temporarily recorded.