Began with concept of duality and reproducibility, however these were process experiments and the dramatic interactions of ink and bleach on wet surface conjured natural processes and geography.

I found the colour mixing for greys challenging, often reaching dark browns, blues and lilacs but I know to improve is just a matter of practice.

I found the results from ink and bleach most interesting. Applied against a white acrylic surface the ink is so dark and runny and fluidly manipulated, while applied to wet paper it slowly diffuses at the edges to give off cloud like effects. Two droplets of ink on wet paper form a border between and expand away from one another – like cell division.

When introduced, the bleach appears to burn through the ink and expanses of golden, bleached paper form new patterns.

I had hoped bleach would work in a similar way on top of photographic ink but instead formed rusty coloured pools between crinkles in the page. Though initially frustrated by this, the crinkling of the paper, absorption and evaporation of water, bleach and ink evoked natural geographic processes in a very simple way. In future it could be a lo-fi process used to communicate global issues of water shortage, flooding and pollution.