{"product_id":"hydrangea-1","title":"Hydrangea #1","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eFlora Around Me\u003c\/em\u003e collection.\u003cbr\u003eAmbrotype 19th Century Photographic process\u003cbr\u003ePlate: 203mm x 254mm\u003cbr\u003eFrame: 284mm x 233mm x 35mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlora Around Me\u003c\/em\u003e is drawn from the flowers Cotteret encounters in daily life, on walks through national parks, around the neighbourhood, or shared by friends.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003cbr\u003eThis is a collection rather than a series. The pieces aren’t bound together by one story, each ambrotype stands as its own intimate encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work arises from a deliberate practice in the studio, taking time to consider how to capture the plants and how the collodion process will render them. Working with wet plate collodion is always a wonder, it reveals the subject in a spectrum of light that differs from human vision, offering a perspective both familiar and surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Ambrotype Process, the works in Flora Around Me are created using the wet plate collodion process, a photographic technique originating in the mid nineteenth century. Each Ambrotype is made by hand on a sheet of glass coated with collodion and sensitised in silver nitrate. The plate must be exposed and developed while still wet, requiring immediacy and precision. The resulting image is a light negative that reveals itself as a positive against a dark background. There is no intermediary negative and no possibility of reproduction. Each ambrotype is therefore a unique photographic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariations in chemistry, light, exposure and timing leave subtle marks unique to each plate and to its making. These are not imperfections, but evidence of a living process, of the hand that made it and of the moment of its creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe materials and method are highly archival, these silver based images, once varnished, can last for generations, preserving the ephemeral beauty of the flowers long after their season has passed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthieu Cotteret","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49296808542427,"sku":"MCT-025","price":800.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0179\/1131\/files\/Hydrangea_1.jpg?v=1789169580","url":"https:\/\/kina.co.nz\/products\/hydrangea-1","provider":"Kina NZ Design + Artspace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}