2022
Fumage on Photogram, soot of photographic paper
54 x 40 inches
Framed: 58 ½ x 44 ½ inches

Steven Spazuk and Oliver Bernardi are merging their talents into a unique medium of artistic expression: Fumage on Photograms.

The duo’s innovative and collaborative explorations create ethereal imprints by capturing traces of water, fire, earth, air, time, space, chaos and movement... in essence, Life. Laden with a profound and ever-present awareness of the fragility of natural order, Spazuk and Bernardi partner with the natural world to express their reverence towards it.

Bernardi breaks down the photographic process to its core, using only light and water to create photograms. These contact prints, created in darkness, illuminate fossil-like imprints of the subjects themselves.

Spazuk’s fumage process of painting with fire layers a fragile film of black carbon on the surface of the photograms. His masterful sculping of this soot reveals images shaped by a light that glows against the watery surface of the photographic paper.

Both artists paint with light. The combination of these two processes makes Spazuk and Bernardi’s biophilic work unique and irreplicable, as life itself.

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