SALT: Studies in Preservation and Manipulation


  • Photographer
    Claire A. Warden
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012
  • Technical Info
    Platinum palladium print

Despite the best efforts of science, authentic preservation of living matter is an impossible act. Botanical life can only endure as a specimen in a liminal state; the extended occupation of a pause between natural growth and decomposition. I emphasize the effect of preservation through the use of salt—a paradoxical mineral necessary to sustain life yet, if the balance is outweighed, can also extinguish it. Using the platinum-palladium photographic process for its chemical stability, these prints complicate the ideal of preservation, albeit, at the expense of the most authentic act of living matter, decay.

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