PLATE 06
Temporal Shear: CCD Array Hesitation
Multi-directional scanner translation with optical prism interference
EXEGESIS REPOSITORY // REF: MPP-PH-2026
Manufactured Terroir
A centralized digital workbook logging physical studio investigations, critical exegesis drafts, and theoretical literature exploring abstract manipulated photography, scanographic friction, and chemical dissolution.
AREA 01 // STUDIO PLATES
Visual Plates
Abstract photographic manipulations, chemical interventions, and scanographic experiments.
PLATE 06
PLATE 05
Dye Migration: Osmotic Dispersion
Wet chromogenic dye migration on textured rag substrate
PLATE 04
Refractive Shear: Cyanographic Residue
Cyanotype solution on Japanese washi, solarisation, scanner drag
PLATE 03
Chemical Substrate: Thermal Inversion
C-type photographic print with localized heat and RAW byte drift
PLATE 02
Spectral Dissolution: Re-Entry
Multi-pass linear scanography, mechanical sensor friction, prism refraction
PLATE 01
Latent Artifact: Emulsion Phase Shift
Silver gelatin, potassium ferricyanide bleaching, flatbed shear
AREA 02 // WRITING
Writing
Theoretical chapters, technical laboratory reports, and studio methodology notes.
Technical protocol documenting byte injection into TIFF header structures without triggering file header rejection.
Historical contextualization linking 19th-century photogenic drawing with post-digital darkroom resistance to standardized digital imaging.
Re-reading Barthesian semiotics under non-representational conditions: locating the punctum inside emulsion tears rather than depicted subjects.
Evaluation of oil-based and beeswax resists applied to silver-gelatin paper prior to alternating alkaline and acidic baths with spectrophotometer data.
Comparative analysis of contact image sensor (CIS) focal falloff versus three-line CCD arrays during high-speed manual paper translation.
Deconstructing Alberti's pictorial window through scanographic drag and buffer fragmentation, arguing for an autonomous non-representational ontology.
AREA 03 // RESEARCH REPO
Annotated Bibliography
Theoretical citations, critical annotations, and their operational relevance to studio practice.
In Defense of the Poor Image
Studio Annotation: Informs the theoretical tension between high-resolution museum prints (Diasec, Hahnemühle Rag) and compressed web representations in this workbook. The degradation of pixel streams becomes…
Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods of Digital Design
Studio Annotation: Directly relates to the physical choreographies of flatbed scanning (Plates 02 & 06), where bodily tremor and manual friction resist the smooth, automated operation…
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Studio Annotation: Frames this workbook's function as both an active repository and a site of intentional material decay. By subjecting archival papers and high-resolution digital scans…
What Photography Is
Studio Annotation: A profound influence on the chemical protocols used for Plates 01 and 05. Elkins provides the philosophical authorization to treat developer, fixer, and ferricyanide…
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Studio Annotation: In an abstract studio practice, Barthes' punctum is challenged and inverted. Where Barthes found the punctum in an incidental detail of a depicted body,…
The Glitch Moment(um)
Studio Annotation: Directly applied to my scanographic experiments (Plate 06) and raw binary drifts (Plate 03). Menkman allows me to differentiate between gratuitous decorative distortion and…