Firegram #4, 2016 58cm x 77cm. © Alan McFetridge
PYROGRAMS
During the -40C dark winter nights of the boreal, I imagined the extraordinary ways that summer fire can sit under the ice and reingite to the following summer. Gathering forest leaves, bark and small pieces of wood from the forest floor by day and by night set up a way to make Pyrograms. Where the light source is light emitted from the burning birch bark, black spruce needles and so on.
About | Pyrograms, 2018
Fire acts as a voice from the wild, to cleanse and renew. The boreal forest is one of 18 earth subsystems identified as precariously resting on a tipping point. The age and mass of plant life within, means the air you are breathing now, as you are reading this, has been recycled many times over there.
It's function is vital to all life and beyond beauty to witness. As the earth’s largest land biomes potential to collapse in the short term increases; ancient activity of wildfire begins to energise under new environmental conditions created as nature is assisted by man (human).
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Crude, Cataclysmic and … Manufactured? How the Horse River Fire continues to inform our upcoming monograph
Firegrams will be featured in an upcoming Monograph, supported by landscape photography and writing by Antoinette Johnson. You can read more about the monograph in a blog post here.
Firegram Prints | Available in Store
Limited edition Firegram prints are available to purchase from our online store
For further information on this project please contact the Studio
All images © Alan McFetridge