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This work forms part of Fractured Whispers, an ongoing body of work rooted in the Scottish Celtic and Atlantic rainforests — landscapes that are ancient, ecologically rare, and increasingly fragile. The series is concerned less with description than with presence: the sense of something enduring, quiet, and resistant to disappearance. The image is realised as a nine-panel tri-colour gum bichromate print, built slowly through multiple layered applications of watercolour pigment. Each panel is individually hand-coated and printed by the artist, allowing tonal density and material variation to accumulate over time. The work is conceived as a single image distributed across panels, emphasising fragmentation, rhythm, and the physical act of looking. Gum bichromate is used here not as a historical reference but as a material language — one that allows the image to hover between photographic registration and painterly presence. The slow, layered process resists immediacy, asking for duration and attention, and echoing the temporal depth of the landscapes from which the work emerges. Each panel is mounted to aluminium to provide structural stability and permanence, and the work is supplied ready for installation using integrated French cleat systems. When assembled, the work spans approximately three feet in width, giving it a strong architectural and physical presence. A smaller A3 version of this work was previously exhibited in Los Angeles at Daniel Miller Gallery. Related works from the Fractured Whispers series have also been shown as part of the Royal Photographic Society’s touring exhibition Squaring the Circles, including presentation at Dalkeith Palace in Scotland.
