Michael John Whelan
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Echoes of evaporation
and submergence

1991
And they did live by watchfires
Nocturne
Untitled
Darkness had no need
These last breaths
The time of cruel wonders
was not yet over

In the black dark for good
Carapace
That we were to wait
Like force and matter
Lupus
20 Vertices, 30 Edges
and 160 Diagonals

Dune
Transit of Venus
Over the echoing gateway
Stars/Star
Shadowplay
Archway (diptych)
A Parallel Impossibility
2014
framed gelatin silver photograph
41.5 x 41.5 cm
(1/5) Next




Taking as a starting point the location of the death of the last Irish wolf in 1786, three photographic positions are presented, made in and around the mountain.

A view from this mountain of dead trees is recorded through an analogue multiple exposure, made on site within the camera. As the translucent layers of the multiple exposure cross and build up presence on the surface of the film, a small area becomes more defined and properly exposed. Some form of presence arises from the ephemerally absent.