Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 009 Featured Materials and details

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The drawings are unique pieces I create in various places and at different times

Stamped with the "Witold Riedel" hanko stamp at the base

Presented during the "Marks of Life" exhibition in Shrewsbury

signed and dated

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 009 Featured Materials and detailsEach 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