1.1 Fusion

Every woman gets her portrait taken on film holding a pebble in her hand. The stone itself is not revealed in the photograph. 

During the C-Type printing process from the negative, the pebble is placed onto the light-sensitive paper. The projection of the image leaves a mark, a photogram, of the pebble on the exposed paper. This establishes a strong connection between the the woman, her own unique pebble and the final printed image. The ‘Fusion’ is only possible by using analogue photographic techniques, as the digital medium would break the physical links in this chain of events. 

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1.2 Transfer

While the printed image of each woman is a final physical manifestation of the described fusion process, the pebble itself has received an additional layer of meaning beyond its physicality. It now stands for the ideas and values of each woman. To visualise this abstract aspect the non-physical property of the medium of digital photography is utilised: 

Every pebble gets photographed digitally from multiple angles. The resulting images are rendered into a GIF animation which shows the pebble in a rotational movement. revealing its colourful beauty and the multiplicity of its nature.

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1.3 Exchange

The animation of the pebble will be uploaded to a cloud based storage or a custom built website with a unique link attached to it. By scanning a QR code for example with a smart phone, the image will be revealed on a screen. It can be downloaded and shared with others. This gives the enclosed ideas, dreams, hopes and values the opportunity to come into existence and grow through individual perception. In this way only human interaction gives the image respectively its immanent values a potential of universality and omnipresence.

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2.1 Presentation

The three components are housed in a single square exhibition frame. While the actual portrait of each woman is a fully analogue handmade print from negative, the rotating pebble is shown on a digital display connected to a mini computer. The affiliated QR-code, a digital file photographically exposed onto light sensitive paper, bridges the two different techniques. The experience is further enhanced by adding audio. Each frame is connected to headphones and the viewer will be able to listen to each woman’s voice.

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2.2 Arrangement

With each square having a side length representing a value within the Fibonacci sequence ( 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…), their arrangement in the frame can be imagined as a Golden Spiral uniting the three elements.