These neglected chromes were originally created on 8x10 and 4x5 film for various clients during my career as a commercial food photographer.

As forces of nature and time overpower the medium’s fragile materials, the vibrant dyes once fixed in plastic are left to freely comingle, leaving behind formless stains of their own matter. The plastic sleeves once used to protect them, take on the traces and imprints of the contents they once held. As we stand witness to the gradual disappearance of these materials from use and production it is not difficult to acknowledge the mutable and ephemeral nature of all things. Embedded in our expectations of the medium is its ability to halt time, to disrupt change. The ghostly surfaces of these decayed relics of the medium’s past evoke the erasure of the images they once held and the means, materials and methods of their origins.