Kenna Robinson

Corporeal refers to the tangible and tactile body in opposition to the spiritual and immaterial self. Long has traditional lens-based photography sought to communicate something beyond the visual, the essence of a subject rather than simply what is seen. The cameraless lumen process is indiscriminate about what it can and can not communicate. What touches the surface is present, anything visible has made contact with the surface. Unlike traditional lumen prints made by pressing physical objects to the surface, the images have been created using water and painterly gesture. In response to the tactility of the lumen process, Corporeal is a merging of the internal and external, mental and physical. Accessing a process which relies wholly on the physical to create imagery, this work is an attempt to sketch the corners of the mind and articulate a space which is inherently intangible. Inky and visceral black and white push and pull constructing an immersive and spanning world only capable of escaping through bodily expression. This set is an imagining of the mind of the artist and a declaration to its maker that this immaterial space exists entirely within and in relation to the material body and world.