In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of “world history”—yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. 

Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense

Now and forever

Heliography for my sons

Dissolve 3 grams of Syrian asphalt in 15ml of lavenda oil. Wait a few days. Deposit the emulsion onto a tin plate with a brush. Get it dry on a pre-heated cast-iron plate for about 20 minutes. Expose to light for about 2-3 days. Rinse the unsolidified emulsion with terpentine or lavenda oil.

 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce called this process heliography and described it in ‘Notice sur l’Héliographie’ in 1829. It is the first photographic process that enables to record reality on a metal plate from an optical darkroom (camera obscura)

The exhibition “Forever and ever” took place within Interphoto 2019 2019 in Galeria BTL, Bialystok.

fot. Bogumił Gudalewski

Heliography, Lazarus and Lazarus, 2019 2x20x27cm (passepartout 60x80cm). Metal plate, lavender oil, Bitume de Judée.
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The View From My Window, 2017, 20x27cm (passepartout 50x70cm).
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Mother, 2019, 20x27cm
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Heliography, I-Cancer 13.10.2017, 20x27cm (passepartout 60x80cm), Metal plate, Lavender Oil, Bitume de Judée.
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Seven Roses for M., 2019, 20x27cm (passepartout 50x70cm)
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Seven Roses for M., 2019, 20x27cm (passepartout 50x70cm)
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The view from my window 2017, 2019, 20x27cm (Passepartout 50x70cm)
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Heliography, I-Bird, 2019, 2x20x27cm (passepartout 60x80cm) Metal plate, Lavender Oil, Bitume de Judée. See more: https://heliographie.art/

The Door , 2019, 20x27cm (Passepartout 50x70cm)
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Sleigh Party 1959, Megacity 2029

Heliography according to Niépce, unique piece, Sleigh Party 1959, Megacity 2029, No 5

Heliography according to Niépce, unique piece, Sleigh Party 1959, Megacity 2029, No 4

Heliography according to Niépce, unique piece, Sleigh Party 1959, Megacity 2029, No 3

Heliography according to Niépce, unique piece, Sleigh Party 1959, Megacity 2029, No 2