Exhibition by Michael Markham
Description:
Michael Markham’s solo exhibition brought together three bodies of work exploring elemental processes of image transfer.
Nature Morte featured paintings that mimicked fossils as meditations on the nature of time. Pyrographs employed custom brands, heated filters, and stencils to burn images into surfaces, while the pyrotechnical tools themselves were displayed in The Bundle alongside actual fossils collected from various sites.
Together, the branded images and fossils reflected on the transformation of surfaces and the representation of forms, considering fire and erosion as natural, time-based processes.
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