2020 Wildfires

Printed as chromogenic prints and soaked in homemade lye made with wood ash collected from the wildfire sites, these images of past and current wildfire reveal a fiery layer as the ashy alkaline mixture degrades the pigments. The prints become malleable and prone to disruption; included with the uncontrolled disturbances made by the lye are moments of deliberate mark-making created by fingerprints, scratches, and the palm of a hand as a therapeutic method of working through trauma and illness caused by the fires.