From the archives - Suminagashi over a Silver Gelatin portrait of @jenniesbecker, 2020 — I have set studio days that I hold even when I don’t have inspiration to work. I picked up suminagashi as a passive, meditative, art practice to occupy myself when active inspiration isn’t in the cards. In a lot of ways, you don’t have control - the amount of ink on the brush varies, you bump the table, the fan is on a higher setting than last week - you can’t recreate the exact conditions twice. I’ve discovered a lot of material combinations and avenues of thought through the time I spend marbling - and it becomes more and more central to my work. What happens when I marble over an image, what happens when I print within the negative space? I’m still working on (and failing) reducing the density of emulsions so I can float the photosensitivity itself. It’s part of the larger pattern of where I find the goodness - meditation, repetition, play.