Time

The author, capturing streams of light through a home-made device, explores the concept of time in photography. The material with which the author works allows you to shift the focus and rethink the role of light in the formation of an image. The cyanotype solution requires a much longer time to form an image compared to a film or a matrix, so the light gives way to it and recedes into the background.

The time of interaction of light with a solution that has low light sensitivity, in a certain sense blurs the concept of photofixation, bringing the process closer to drawing. In contrast to photography, which by its lexeme and mechanics involves clear movements for a quick press of the shutter, as if dividing the flow of time into before and after. The created object perceives time as a continuum.

Cyanotype produces shades of Berlin blue, but the use of an apparatus with a lens legitimizes the inversion process. The result is an image of golden color, which is mostly associated with the Sun, gold and amber, as a material embodiment of time. Being in front of the image and interacting with it, the viewer seems to find himself in a stream of light that has accumulated and with incredible speed transfers him from the current time to the metaphysical time of the creation of the object. The object on which the lens of the camera was directed continues to exist and interact not only with the photographer then, but also with the viewer at this moment in time.