Back to the Wild Place is a meditation on climate change. It asks us to stare at familiar species and wonder at their possible decline, it asks us to consider if it is possible to restore all that we have lost and what more we will lose. Imagined scenes were made by doubling negatives of wild landscapes and of taxidermy animals, from the natural history museum. Starting with a contact negative, the Gum Bichromate print is made by overlaying a series of repeat prints, again and again, until the desired richness, density and colour tones are achieved. At first glance the handmade photographs appear unremarkable, it is only with more engagement that the images appear ghost-like and there is an unsettling realisation that all is not as it seems.
