BODY ALCHEMY

ABOUT BODY ALCHEMY:   Blending Analog Photographic Chemistry and Digital Technology to explore the human form through transmutation. In this project, the naked human body becomes  the canvas for a transformative process into a new visual expression, which  goes far beyond the beauty and sensuality of the figure which originated the visuals in the first place, the explicit view disappears and the transmutation process occurs by using combined analog (darkroom) and digital (lightroom) techniques. The Chemo-Digital Prints, developed through a long period of time and experimentation with photographic chemistry in the darkroom, followed by some digital post-production and  finishing, constitutes the basis of this -still ongoing- project, all the more so after finding Salvador Dali’s amazing exhibition “Alchemy of the Philosophers” which rekindled my interest in the symbolic, spiritual and ritualistic meaning of  the Transmutation processes, and how it affects visual perception, and promises to accompany me for many many years, probably till the end my life in this planet.