This photography series narrates a history about transformation of matter and concepts. Talc is the basic raw material used to produce talcum powder. It comes from open pit mines where rocks are drilled, blasted, and partially crushed, which sounds like a quite violent and power-intensive activity performed on geographical formations. By using copious amounts of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder to build a sculptural piece, this work aims at reversing the destructive process by metaphorically putting the pieces together again, which off course doesn’t happen as the resulting structure is fragile and might not even resemble the original formation. This process includes another gesture implying photography: By taking pictures of the sculpture with a macro lens and enlarging them, its materiality conceptually and visually shifts again, giving the impression that it could be a real life mining operation.
