Uadi

A glass, a river, a trace, a scan, a print, a repetition...

“Uadi” [Wadi] is an Arabic term used to refer to the channel of a river that remains dry for extended periods of time. It names a landscape shaped by traces of water, and its idiosyncratic absence.

This project will happen over the surface of a single glass plate. Every 7 days I will collect water samples to make a cyanotype chemigram over the surface of the glass. Each week, the print will disappear in contact with the new water, letting a new one begin.

Wadi unfolds from the larger project Clepsydra. It follows the same dripping technique that I developed for the making of the photographic chemigrams but with a focus on the repetition and disappearance of the process. Whereas my Clepsydrae are physical objects made for interaction, the Wadi series is conceived to be immediately erased: a performance that restarts with the photograph.