umbrae: shadow-scape 2024          «there should be a ghost in every picture».  The story of Kwashin Koji, ‹Japanese Ghost Stories›

‹umbrae›: the invariable or characteristic of a person or thing, a phantom or shadowy image, an apparition, as someone, something, a spectral image.

The series revolves around the notion of a changing environment, the layering of growth in colour on a faded black & white shadow representing what one day may no longer be, the shadow of future decay behind current life. 

all images double layered digital prints on 3mm museum glass. 18×18 / 40x40cm. Edition of 6 +2 AP. From 6x6cm Fuji Slide and Ilford HP5 B&W film.