• Works
  • Setup with scanner and mirror, 2020
  • Baltic Amber, 2019
  • Parts of a detonator 2018
  • Baltic Seascape, 2019
  • black and white, 2019 (ongoing)
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Alexander Kadow
  • Works
  • Setup with scanner and mirror, 2020
  • Baltic Amber, 2019
  • Parts of a detonator 2018
  • Baltic Seascape, 2019
  • black and white, 2019 (ongoing)
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Vita

Baltic Amber, 2019

analogue c prints, 100cm x 125cm Baltic amber was projected onto light-sensitive photographic paper using the analogical foto lab and it’s physico-chemical process. The inversion of the colours, which normally turns the negative into a positive, turns the natural object into an abstracted image. Baltic Amber consists of orange coloured and hardened resin, often containing insects and plant remains from a long time ago. While the ability to store information in a translucent medium is reminiscent of the photographic negative, this work draws a connection from a natural phenomenon to a human made process, which normally is intended to capture a moment of time, creating images which show reality. The outcome in this case is an abstracted and artificial version of it.