Photographs exist through the veil of time and light. An image reflects a moment that is passed, a brief slice of time. The Time Lapse project both illustrates and physically engages with the ruins of subterranean battery arcades where time and light coincide. The effect of time is visible in the environmental and human impact upon the space, while light spills through the penetrations in the bunkiers on its journey through the continuum of time.

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My physical engagement with time and light is elemental to this work. The prints are made using the carbon printing process, a 19th century technique that relies on carbon pigment suspended in gelatin. The carbon itself is more than a pigment - it is a remnant of all living things, the trace element left behind after time has done its work. Carbon dating is how we measure the age of once-living material, and in this work, carbon becomes both medium and metaphor.