Diane Barnetson, Remnants (ART 2026)

These images show disintegration, distortion and decay. The manner of their making defines a threshold, a liminal space between the image and its source. These unique recordings of temporal moments signify change. These images reflect on the process of cameraless image making, referencing an original concept of photography, “drawing with light”, from the Greek phos, meaning light, and graphe, meaning drawing. The manipulation of objects on the scanner bed is recorded by the scanner’s beam in an otherwise darkened space. The trace, the objects and lines you see here are distorted; objects are flattened. Three-dimensional form is suggested but it remains partial; the scanner cannot record depth. The resulting images are abstractions of process, captured rhythms rather than the visualisation of particular objects and their arrangement.

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.