This ongoing project is about the survival of material.
The idea came from my father, who used to carry a photo of his grandmother in his purse. Even it was damaged, schratched, torn apart and then sticked together again over the years (at least 30), it was still a visible, tactile image you can actually hold in your hand.
Saying how digital changed everything is no big news. Luckily I’m not the onlyone who is still devoted about analogue photography technics and using those to create images.
In this experiment I destroyed plenty of my printed photograps in different ways, to test the tolerability of the material, also observed and documented the mutation.
I don’t claim digital is necessarily from the devil, but turned out to be a much more fragile process then any material based one.
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The artificial aging test with sandpaper and black tea:
The boiling water test:
The blender test:
The freezer test:
The washing machine test:
The vinegar test:
The domestos test:
The hot oil test:
The petrol test:
The tire test:
The nail polish remover test:
The shredder test:
The one month British weather test:
