Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 012 drawing 2026) at Swan Studios in

2026) at Swan Studios in Shrewsbury

The little red round stamp dates the prints and it is the exactly same stamp I use on many of my drawings made in that particular year

signed and dated

Materials and details

Both the pigeon and I were on the edge of things

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 012 drawing 2026) at Swan Studios inEach piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot, or 300 year old particles, reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle