Drift

Drift is a series of luminograms that explore colour as a state of passage — never fixed, always in the process of becoming something else.

Each work is made without a camera. Light falls directly onto photo-sensitive paper, leaving traces that are less record than residue. The making of each piece is guided primarily by chance: the angle of incidence, the duration of exposure, the gentle unpredictability of how light disperses across a surface. What emerges is not composed in any conventional sense, but discovered — an image that arrives rather than one that is planned.

Exhibition view of the MA final show

The works are arranged as linear sequences, a form that mirrors the logic of transition itself. Moving from one luminogram to the next, colour does not simply change; it drifts. Tones bleed into adjacent hues, saturations rise and fall, temperature shifts from warm to cool and back again.

In choosing chance as a compositional driver, the work resists the idea that colour can be owned or controlled. Instead, it belongs to the materials and the light — to the chemistry of the paper, the behaviour of photons, the particular quality of a given moment of exposure.