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Field Notes

( process )

An Index of Warmth

Written

April 21, 2025

Reading

5 minutes

Series

The Second Frame

Location

Alentejo

Pl. 01

An Index of Warmth

Alentejo

Most of my work is grey. There is a drawer in the studio for the photographs that refused to be.

Most of my work is grey. There is a drawer in the studio for the photographs that refused to be — an orange tree, a cactus wall, a field turned red by infrared film.

A drawer of colour

I do not show them often. But every year I take them out and lay them on the table, because they remind me what the grey photographs are choosing not to say.

Pl. 02

An Index of Warmth

Alentejo, 2025

“The sea did not change. I did.”

— Field notes, fourth evening

Colour is information. Monochrome is a decision about which information matters.

Pl. 03

Study I

Alentejo

Pl. 04

Study II

Alentejo

The drawer is getting fuller. One day it may become a series of its own.

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