saturations

‘every new object, clearly seen, opens up a new organ of perception in us.’
(jeremy naydler, goethe on science. p116, floris books, 1996 – ref: significant help, bedeutende fordernis, ha 13.38; trans miller, p.39)

ct recording (wheal maid lower tailings lagoon, june 2023)

artist collaboration: russell burden & craig tattersall
location: wheal maid tailings lagoons (cornish mars)
topics: historic geo-extraction, tailings dams/lagoons, chemical mutability, saturation, ephemeral recording processes
grid ref: 50°14’16.6″N 5°09’29.2″W
media: sound recording, 4×5″ photography, cyanotype, lumen, music, film, mineral works

  • watermarks #1 (rb - lower pond, wheal maid, june,2023)

  • watermarks #2 (rb - lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june,2023)

  • watermarks #3 (rb - lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • watermarks #4 (rb - lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • #1 contact (wheal maid)

  • #2 impress (wheal maid)

  • #3 exposure (wheal maid)

  • #4 exposure (wheal maid)

  • #5 record (wheal maid)

  • lagoonal precipitate (wheal maid)

  • capping material (wheal maid)

  • plus two grey tailings (wheal maid)

  • rb 4x5" #1 (wheal maid, june 2023)

  • rb 4x5" #2 (wheal maid, june 2023)

4x5" cyanotype (rb/ct, wheal maid lower tailings lagoon, june 2023)

  • ground bee tailings #1 (rb, wheal maid capping, june 2023)

  • ground bee tailings #2 (rb, wheal maid capping, june 2023)

  • tailings (rb, wheal maid tailings, june 2023)

  • petrichor (rb, wheal maid dam, june 2023)

culvert cyanotype (rb/ct, st.day stream, post-tailings-dam, wheal maid, june 2023)

acidophilic bacterial film (rb, pre-dam pond, wheal maid tailings dam, june 2023)

cyanotype flip-side (rb/ct, wheal maid, post-dam pond, june 2023)

  • mineral dust (lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • rb recording (lower overflow weir, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • ct rain (wheal maid, june 2023)

  • submerged object (rb - post-dam pond, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • paper placement (rb/ct lower tailings lagoon, june 2023)

  • ct, recording (tunnel to wheal maid, june 2023)

  • watermarks #5 (rb, lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • watermarks #6 (rb, tailings pond, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • cyanotype/lumen (rb/ct, lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid june 2023)

  • ground lumen (ct, tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • overflow weir (rb, lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • mineral overlay (rb, wheal maid, june 2023)

  • ochre #1 (lower tailings pond, june 2023)

  • ochre #2 (lower tailings pond, june 2023)

overflow weirs (rb, wheal maid, june 2023)

cyanotype & lumen print emersion (rb/ct, lower tailings lagoon, june 2023)

  • cyanotype (rb/ct, lower tailings lagoon, wheal maid, june, 2023)

  • cyanotype (rb/ct - post-dam pond, wheal maid, june, 2023)

enframement (rb, disused mine, wheal nangiles, chacewater, june 2023)

stone object and ground rubbing (rb, wheal maid pigments, 2023)

ct output

wrappings set (ct, wheal maid, june 2023)

toned set (ct, wheal maid, june 2023)

tunnel set (ct, wheal maid, june 2023)

foldings set (ct, wheal maid, june 2023)