Littoral Drift Ecotone by
Meghann Riepenhoff. First edition (2018). First impression. Large format hardback in fine condition. These are two Volumes in a Z Binding. No markings. There are also three leaflets (two with images and one with text) tipped in to rear of the book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Littoral Drift Ecotone
So, this work stems from the artist’s fascination with the nature of our relationships to the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence. Both series consist of cyanotypes made directly in the landscape. Where elements like precipitation, waves, wind, and also sediment physically etch into the photo chemistry; the prints simultaneously expose in sunlight and wash in the water around them.
Littoral Drift, a geologic term describing the action of wind-driven waves transporting sand and gravel, consists of camera-less cyanotypes made in collaboration with the landscape and the ocean, at the edge of both.
The elements employed in the process—waves, rain, wind, and also sediment—leave physical inscriptions through direct contact with photographic materials. Ecotone also engages dynamic photographic materials in the landscape, but collaborates with precipitation rather than ocean waves or running water in the landscape. Rain, snow, ice, fog, etc. chemically activate the photographic materials, while they expose via the residual sunlight that exists even in the heaviest storm.
In Littoral Drift Ecotone, Riepenhoff drapes the photochemically treated paper on objects in the landscape, from windfall branches and boulders to garbage cans and fences. The pieces record the movement of water through the planetary surface, tracing topographies in both wild and built environments.
Photochemically, the pieces are never wholly processed; they continue to change over time in response to environments that they encounter, blurring the line between creation and destruction.
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