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Jody Saunders

Fine Art Painting & Photography

Paintings

Artist's notes:
In our usual daily lives we tend to limit our visual experiences to one scale; a scale that is made possible by the physical range of vision of our eyes. Without deliberately taking time to pause between the rush to get from "A" to "B", it is easy to forget the hidden worlds that exist in our environment. By looking at the minuscule and microcosm patterns are revealed that are the same on different scales.

"The scientist has already seen what he observes in the microscope and paradoxically one might say that he never sees anything for the first time" Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space.

The web-like structures are the cells of microscopic proportion and a reminder of our existence in the ultimate reality; we are living in a small section of nature between the two infinities of the microcosm and the macrocosm. Beneath the surface of our perceptions lies a hidden pattern that connects all life, and we just like all forms of nature are connected to this.


Cyanotypes on Paper

Artist's notes:
I have made a series of photographs using the cyanotype process by arranging netting similar to my earlier black and white photograms. I like the rich colour and depth this process creates. I found it interesting working outside in natural light rather than the controlled lighting in the darkroom.

These prints were made during the winter solstice with the sun very low in the sky which casted a long shadow over the netting so the images are formed by both the objects and the shadow the objects cast.

The cyanotype process was originally used for the production of blue prints and first used to make photograms by the photographer Anna Atkins in 1842.

Cyanotype by Jody Saunders
Cyanotype by Jody Saunders
Cyanotype by Jody Saunders

Photograms

Artist's notes:
These images are made by placing netting directly on top of the photographic paper without using a negative therefore each work is a one-off. I like the rhythm thats formed by the overlapping and twisting of the nets and the very delicate white lines that mimic calligraphic stokes.

Photogram by Jody Saunders
Photogram by Jody Saunders
Photogram by Jody Saunders

More Cameraless photography

Artist's notes:
Shedded snakeskin is used as a negative to make these prints. I kept the skin as one piece to make one off prints of sections of the skin.

Camera-less photograhpy by Jody Saunders
Camera-less photograhpy by Jody Saunders
Camera-less photograhpy by Jody Saunders