Natural Deteriorated Patterns
Natural Deteriorated Patterns is a collection developed from the damaged surfaces of early twentieth-century glass negatives. Rather than focusing on portraits or identifiable figures, the works isolate marks, stains, cracks, chemical traces, and tonal formations created by humidity, pressure, and long-term deterioration.
Through scanning, enlargement, and digital isolation, these damaged areas are transformed into independent compositions. What appears at first as photographic loss becomes a field of texture, rhythm, and structure, revealing how decay can generate its own visual language within the archive.
The collection forms an important part of the Metamorphosis project, showing how the archive can produce contemporary images not only through preserved subjects, but through the material evidence of its deterioration.
