Purple Inkwell Studios
Artifacts of Exposure
A limited fine art series of darkroom photograms created on Kodak light sensitive paper in a confined bathroom darkroom. Each original work measures 8x10 and exists as a one of one artifact. The 11x14 series prints are archival pigment reproductions on heavyweight cotton rag.
The series set includes all six images shown below. Each print is signed, numbered, and produced as part of a strictly limited edition.
Series statement
Artifacts of Exposure explores pressure, containment, and the trace left behind after illumination. The stains and distortions are not errors. They are evidence. Each work records direct contact between object and light, a relic of exposure both photographic and psychological.
The six works
Shown here as a unified set. Sizes and editions remain consistent across the series.
Halo Wire
A domestic object becomes a portal. Symmetry turns the ordinary into an emblem of watching, waiting, and return.
Fear
A face meets a boundary. The image holds tension between exposure and protection, as if the paper itself is glass.
Crossed Sticks
A rough geometry of chance and restraint. Lines intersect like a quiet omen, a small ritual laid flat in shadow.
Shell
A relic of ocean time. The spiral reads like memory compressed, holding both architecture and disappearance in one form.
Lone Shell
Isolated and luminous. The object feels like a specimen and a prayer, suspended between scientific record and talisman.
Chemical Trace
Where exposure becomes weather. The bloom of tone and stain is the darkroom speaking, leaving its fingerprint intact.
Originals: One of one works, 8x10 on Kodak darkroom photo paper. Email for availability.