MK Wynn

Material Topographies

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These works explore the materiality of charcoal, graphite and paper. Images are built from carbon in two phase states, dry particulate form and waterborne suspension. Paper is both support and material body, creating volumes and voids when folded along compositional axes, recording pressure and moisture with creases, warps and tears. The resulting topography influences the composition, catching light and particulate carbon along the ridge tops while pooling shadows and liquid suspension in the valleys & creases, in a process that (re)builds forests through physical interactions of their own derivatives.