Researcher Statement & Methodology

Treating gelatin-silver emulsions not as passive recording surfaces, but as reactive sculptural matter. Employing localized resists (syrups, varnishes, wax) and alternating baths of alkaline developer and acidic fixer under daylight to produce self-generating chromatic topographies.

Disrupting the motorized carriage of flatbed scanners through manual resistance, physical vibration, and optical refraction. Turning the scanner from a document-duplicating machine into a temporal recording apparatus that logs the corporeal struggle of the artist's body against the device.

Direct hexadecimal manipulation and byte-stream corruption of uncompressed RAW files, followed by hybrid printing onto traditional Japanese washi and baryta papers. Bridging nineteenth-century chemical unpredictability with twenty-first-century algorithmic fragility.