Slow Burn, 2020

In times of quarantine by virus or wildfire smog, my living room has become a space for working, teaching, eating, entertaining, worrying, yearning. Using previous photographs taken on my phone of friends’ and family’s curtains, I have created a series of photographic prints longing for a sense of home. The ongoing series Slow Burn is a grouping of anthotypes—prints made from using food remnants to create natural, light sensitive emulsions. Avocado skins, red cabbage, beet juice, red wine, strawberry heads, and blueberry peelings are among the ingredients used to begin the print—once the sunlight touches these layers of dye of paper, the image of a friend’s curtains slowly begins to appear (some emulsions leaving me waiting one week, other ones for two months). As sunlight continues to hit the prints of these windows, the image will eventually be exposed to too much light, and disappear altogether.

To see more prints from the series that was included in the group exhibition Architecture of Dreams at Eugene Contemporary Art, click here: https://antiaesthetic.com/Noelle-Herceg