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Silverware

Vases
Porcelain, silver gelatin
44cm dia x 50cm
2012
Silverware is a collection of porcelain vases with silver gelatin photograms of coastal seaweed. The images on the vases have been created using an original photographic technique. Seaweeds are temporarily attached to the surface of sensitised vases before being resolved within a beam of light.
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Detail of Silverware vase showing kelp specimen silver gelatin photogram
A Silverware vase with Wire Weed seaweed silver gelatin photogram
A round Silverware vase with sea lettuce silver gelatin seaweed photogram
Glithero team foraging seaweed on the beach
A pair of tall Silverware vases with silver gelatin photograms of Kelp seaweed
A silverware vase being processed in the darkroom
A Silverware vase with foraged seaweed silver gelatin photogram
A round Silverware vase with silver gelatin photogram of foraged seaweed in spider composition
A detail of a Silverware vase showing seaweed silver gelatin photogram
A foraged seaweed specimen
A tall Silverware vase with silver gelatin sea spaghetti photogram
A Silverware vase with silver gelatin kelp seaweed specimen in humbug composition
A tall Silverware vase with sea lettuce silver gelatin photogram
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After exposing the vases in this way, the photogram is revealed by developing the images in a dark room. The silverware process is achieved through meticulous experimentation and the resulting images capture the specimen down to the finest detail.

The seaweed was foraged by from around the coast the British Isles.