tanso — 炭 — carbon
The element that remembers every fire it has touched.
A nocturnal study of carbon — element, pressure, transformation, brilliance, trace.
Under pressure,
black becomes mirror.
Each grain is the residue of a heat that has already passed.
Roll 014 — selected frames — contact print on baryta, hand-developed.
Diamond.
The same atom — only the geometry has changed.
What remains is a smudge — a thumbprint of every flame.