...for it's not the same river...

8 cameras made from mountain waste

8 cameras made from waste collected from a riverbed before the monsoon rains in Udaipur, India.

I attached floats to the cameras and anchored them to the shore, with lenses facing down into the dirt. As the rains came it lifted them off their rest position, 'activating' their shutters.

An environmental shutter, one by which the phenomena being documented is also that causing the image to be made in the first place.

It took days for the rain to come, when they eventually did I was fast asleep. I could hardly contain my excitement as I was roused from slumber by the pitter patter of steadily increasing rain fall, though I knew this was not an image I could partake anymore in the creation of, for at this point it was making itself.

In the final slides we look on at the river looking at itself - a cyanotype print of the negatives made in the waste cameras, developed out with water from the same river.

The title references Heraclitus' Fragments.

An unpredicted metaphysical aspect of the work being that the water seeped through the pinholes on some of the cameras. This meant that alongside the photolytic decay of silver halides in the emulsion as the light reached it through the water, there was a physical interaction as it 'damaged' the film base - highlighting the transformative nature of both the process and material.

A multi layered expression of the water, as well as an attempt to escape my anthropocentric perspective.