Riverside Fire

These are a select few images from a project made in May, 2020.

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.