https://michaeladavidova.com michaela davidova Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:46:30 +0000 https://michaeladavidova.com en https://michaeladavidova.com/Homepage-left Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:36 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Homepage-left Art and Research michaela davidova To me, the ecological thinking starts with the process. Body waste, urine-based and DIY photographic developers, belly sounds, alchemy of the ingredients, digestion by plants and fungi, and morphing growing cultures are all part of my practice. I engage with analogue photography but my artworks are not limited to images. I am keen to collaborate.&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4d80c09fe7405e7460ca3a2c765a9eeb750cd5bc76241b32f6399376cc32a04/image00002.jpeg" data-mid="245577361" border="0" alt="Urochromatography, 2024" data-caption="Urochromatography, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4d80c09fe7405e7460ca3a2c765a9eeb750cd5bc76241b32f6399376cc32a04/image00002.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c3257eb38402604499a9488e674d779b0eae65bffbf632365539e3d700747eb/urine-circle.jpeg" data-mid="245576339" border="0" alt="Boiling the Piss - 2023/2024" data-caption="Boiling the Piss - 2023/2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c3257eb38402604499a9488e674d779b0eae65bffbf632365539e3d700747eb/urine-circle.jpeg" /> <img width="1728" height="1728" width_o="1728" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43dd734cef1a14499cb2426954798a45bdf6ff873036767d3e2a3bfde92ad317/constructed-wetlands---deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova--2022-9.jpeg" data-mid="152495185" border="0" alt="Constructed wetlands &amp; Deconstructed borders - 2021/2022" data-caption="Constructed wetlands &amp; Deconstructed borders - 2021/2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43dd734cef1a14499cb2426954798a45bdf6ff873036767d3e2a3bfde92ad317/constructed-wetlands---deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova--2022-9.jpeg" /> <img width="13516" height="7936" width_o="13516" height_o="7936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e8db00b0ed700e18aa2dc1d027c1223f4c3da42a97638ff66c746378e1202d/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152444418" border="0" alt="Heads listening to belly sounds - 2022" data-caption="Heads listening to belly sounds - 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66e8db00b0ed700e18aa2dc1d027c1223f4c3da42a97638ff66c746378e1202d/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" /> <img width="1432" height="1576" width_o="1432" height_o="1576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4511f7771c349218f9e4bee6cf4e63cb79a7cd3122f4f2b16d25a21584189c5d/96-human-waste-bags-left-on-the-Moon--sound-tests--michaela-davidova.jpg" data-mid="152503161" border="0" alt="96 human waste bags left on the Moon - 2020" data-caption="96 human waste bags left on the Moon - 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4511f7771c349218f9e4bee6cf4e63cb79a7cd3122f4f2b16d25a21584189c5d/96-human-waste-bags-left-on-the-Moon--sound-tests--michaela-davidova.jpg" /> <img width="2432" height="1572" width_o="2432" height_o="1572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6670663ce69479506b7a5a0ccd57fdb3ab6a294aa570256b41f050dd84150c61/Aspergillus-niger-and-bodily-swabs-in-the-Petri-dish-with-the-photographic-film--Michaela-Davidova--2022--2.jpg" data-mid="152436931" border="0" alt="The darkroom as an organism - 2022 - ongoing" data-caption="The darkroom as an organism - 2022 - ongoing" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6670663ce69479506b7a5a0ccd57fdb3ab6a294aa570256b41f050dd84150c61/Aspergillus-niger-and-bodily-swabs-in-the-Petri-dish-with-the-photographic-film--Michaela-Davidova--2022--2.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1512" width_o="1080" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8463e142103d7bf17b9f959911851bd2b07fa0874f9adfa742801dbdd7c5175c/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019.jpg" data-mid="152445400" border="0" alt="The Imprint - 2019" data-caption="The Imprint - 2019" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8463e142103d7bf17b9f959911851bd2b07fa0874f9adfa742801dbdd7c5175c/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019.jpg" /> <img width="2987" height="4180" width_o="2987" height_o="4180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb17e7ca531b504d42548cb4d870b92b76204e09612b9d3358b04429f878f50e/pin58_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152444355" border="0" alt="The Hoard of the world seen through the eye of an aluminium can - 2017 - 2020" data-caption="The Hoard of the world seen through the eye of an aluminium can - 2017 - 2020" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb17e7ca531b504d42548cb4d870b92b76204e09612b9d3358b04429f878f50e/pin58_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69cbab6a3df25e676e7ddbb7a0fb55cabef783d8e9fc6fa82f2630365fd6fc34/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--1.jpg" data-mid="152445104" border="0" alt="Pedal Powered Solargraphs - 2016" data-caption="Pedal Powered Solargraphs - 2016" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69cbab6a3df25e676e7ddbb7a0fb55cabef783d8e9fc6fa82f2630365fd6fc34/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--1.jpg" /> Work Index&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://michaeladavidova.com/Urochromatography Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:46:30 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Urochromatography Urochromatography 2024 Collaborative exploration of urine as matter together with Hedwich Rooks, presented during the residency at SOLU Bioart Society, as part of the exhibition&nbsp;Oozing, Spilling, Leaking: uncovering bodily fluids in artistic practice - a duo project with Gennietta Varsi and collective of Michaela Davidova and Hedwich Rooks, curated by Julia Fidder, 2024 Here, we would like to walk you along the stream. It leaks through environments - farmlands and nightclubs, sewers and oceans. It rejoins the waters of abjection to become anew - the water of ends and beginnings. The liquid is akin to humans but inseparable from nature too. Organic, and synthetic; yellow and amber; repulsive and satisfying; clean and dirty, it is mine as much as yours and theirs. In this pool we swim. This is the ode to the metabolic by-product, to the waste and resource, to the liquid that we no longer can hold onto. The fluid is forgotten as quickly as it is flushed through the bathroom bowels. Urine, piss, pee or wee wee. Do you listen to the water tapping on the ceramic bowl? You nor we can escape the cycle. This returning need makes us feel cross-contaminated but grounded, and connected with and part of what makes us alive. The repeetition so certain but not at all general. It all begins and ends with glomerular filtration. Or when the drinks are absorbed by the lining of the mouth and the tongue, then passed through the stomach and guts into the bloodstream. Or when proteins break down, and urobilin is formed. It all happens again and again when the substances are decomposed into oxygen, nutrients and toxins and then carried with the blood towards glomeruli. The tiny network of blood vessels that grow in the kidneys like the roots of the plants in helophyte filters strain the water, uric acid, urea, and various ions, salts and acids - down to the bladder and out.Oozing, Spilling, Leaking: uncovering bodily fluids in artistic practice - a duo project with Gennietta Varsi and collective of Michaela Davidova and Hedwich Rooks, curated by Julia Fidder, 2024, SOLU Bioart Society <img width="2758" height="4137" width_o="2758" height_o="4137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f120e932a6851b926c270a6b5500c7d7bdb351fce398b72f4f5d118b157d7b53/Indian-Yellow-pigment-on-glass--Michaela-Davidova---Hedwich-Rooks--Bioart-Society-2024--2.jpg" data-mid="245576798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f120e932a6851b926c270a6b5500c7d7bdb351fce398b72f4f5d118b157d7b53/Indian-Yellow-pigment-on-glass--Michaela-Davidova---Hedwich-Rooks--Bioart-Society-2024--2.jpg" />Indian yellow pigment which was historically obtained from concentrated urine from cows fed on a diet of mango leaves This project brings together the practices of Gennietta Varsi, Michaela Davidova and Hedwich Rooks. In the longer collaborative project, the artists research the place of bodily fluids in their own and other’s practices. In doing so, they focus both on ecological and social sustainability and reflect on the possibilities of oozing, spilling or leaking the own body in the work.During the residency we focused on the diuretic plants and pigments explored through the food practice and chromatography process. <img width="4583" height="3056" width_o="4583" height_o="3056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/637defbac5892fe3e1b3139de862d46772a307f77f55ff962873c92a95399961/Dishes-with-diuretic-plants--Michaela-Davidova---Hedwich-Rooks--Bioart-Society-2024.jpg" data-mid="245576866" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/637defbac5892fe3e1b3139de862d46772a307f77f55ff962873c92a95399961/Dishes-with-diuretic-plants--Michaela-Davidova---Hedwich-Rooks--Bioart-Society-2024.jpg" /> asparagus, birch, hibiscus, horsetail, parsley, nigella, juniper<img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b8f43720bd74cee71b421861b11156fbb9012ad14154b1f251d5f00e1db8e19/IG_microscopy-image--liquid-cooked-urine-and-dandelion-flower-pulp-extract-in-NaOH-1.jpg" data-mid="245576877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b8f43720bd74cee71b421861b11156fbb9012ad14154b1f251d5f00e1db8e19/IG_microscopy-image--liquid-cooked-urine-and-dandelion-flower-pulp-extract-in-NaOH-1.jpg" />microscopy image, liquid cooked urine and dandelion flower pulp extract in NaOH <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7175b21aa62f1d150df6b8f867fc7a0a217370f09320ddb221eb5cefdea37beb/IG_microscopy-image--liquid-cooked-urine.jpg" data-mid="245576879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7175b21aa62f1d150df6b8f867fc7a0a217370f09320ddb221eb5cefdea37beb/IG_microscopy-image--liquid-cooked-urine.jpg" />microscopy image, liquid cooked urine <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2948190bacbed336ce31e6d320c9b412290f350f62f6a3282c8ecf2c673649bd/IG_stereo-microscopy-image--solid-cooked-urine.jpg" data-mid="245576922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2948190bacbed336ce31e6d320c9b412290f350f62f6a3282c8ecf2c673649bd/IG_stereo-microscopy-image--solid-cooked-urine.jpg" />stereo microscopy image, solid cooked urine Oozing, Spilling, Leaking: uncovering bodily fluids in artistic practice - a duo project with Gennietta Varsi and collective of Michaela Davidova and Hedwich Rooks, curated by Julia Fidder, 2024, SOLU Bioart Society <img width="2758" height="4137" width_o="2758" height_o="4137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/790b9ecdc92f9d325096191b5b4b63da960e7c8c232262c4d09b2f0afd39eff7/-Urochromatography1-copy.jpg" data-mid="245576874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/790b9ecdc92f9d325096191b5b4b63da960e7c8c232262c4d09b2f0afd39eff7/-Urochromatography1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3399" height="5098" width_o="3399" height_o="5098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf99f09bf68e1c46ae9d4148ee276e0639ceb048e8d7c0bd556a597d2e67d36c/Urochromatography3.jpg" data-mid="245577155" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf99f09bf68e1c46ae9d4148ee276e0639ceb048e8d7c0bd556a597d2e67d36c/Urochromatography3.jpg" /> <img width="2864" height="4294" width_o="2864" height_o="4294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/439f046db938f5cbd11e323fc19bedf5be6395319618c9eab38e755963d71329/Urochromatography4.jpg" data-mid="245576876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/439f046db938f5cbd11e323fc19bedf5be6395319618c9eab38e755963d71329/Urochromatography4.jpg" /> <img width="3176" height="4763" width_o="3176" height_o="4763" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0582f7a61b21c9c5aaaf864b1a434bb658559cbe20db14e05c4253da88839bfd/Tasting3.jpg" data-mid="245577162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0582f7a61b21c9c5aaaf864b1a434bb658559cbe20db14e05c4253da88839bfd/Tasting3.jpg" /> <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95ff1b497c2016a5791d8bd87d5b1264b72333289abb6f631a90c14baf8368c3/Urochromatography-in-Mustikkamaa.jpg" data-mid="245576985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95ff1b497c2016a5791d8bd87d5b1264b72333289abb6f631a90c14baf8368c3/Urochromatography-in-Mustikkamaa.jpg" /> <img width="1844" height="2439" width_o="1844" height_o="2439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de91e267be019bf52984641be6430e559d77cb5fab7f8c8d62e00857651db8a6/image00025.jpeg" data-mid="245577082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de91e267be019bf52984641be6430e559d77cb5fab7f8c8d62e00857651db8a6/image00025.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6ccdd9e6b3c069b83b5e1bc8f54ae4e4fb0fe525bec54562165e73b72ea1307/image00051.jpeg" data-mid="245577085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6ccdd9e6b3c069b83b5e1bc8f54ae4e4fb0fe525bec54562165e73b72ea1307/image00051.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50bb363c6c8f51afc11fece2bd228c7c75c940e9801db231f92021145a4d5eb9/image00003.jpeg" data-mid="245577087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50bb363c6c8f51afc11fece2bd228c7c75c940e9801db231f92021145a4d5eb9/image00003.jpeg" /> https://michaeladavidova.com/Boiling-the-piss Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:05:01 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Boiling-the-piss Boiling the Piss 2023/2024 <img width="720" height="870" width_o="720" height_o="870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80e5646cc058f54de423c7654064b47cdc25f9cac49037336e7864dca459d206/glomeruli-sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2023.jpg" data-mid="206197158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/80e5646cc058f54de423c7654064b47cdc25f9cac49037336e7864dca459d206/glomeruli-sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2023.jpg" /> Boiling the piss, 2023/2024, 16mm, 2' 40’’ Boiling the piss is my debut 16mm film made at the coast near Den Haag (NL) with artist Hedwich Rooks. Together, we collected our urine and shared it in one pot. We boiled it down and watched the water evaporate until the dark brown minerals started to accumulate at the bottom. Boiling the piss is a process film considering the values embedded in bodies through a shared metabolic conversion of waste. It follows my artistic investigation into researching urine as a photographic developer and/or possibly a fixer too. The negative film was developed with the traditional developer D96, while positive was printed with the urine-based developer. The film also contains a chemigram which combines the leftover materials transformed with the urine liquid inviting a viewer into the metabolizing processes. The sound was added in 2024 during the residency at SOLU/Bioart Society, Helsinki, as a site specific reverse recording of their toilet.Other urine-developer recipes: <img width="1993" height="1121" width_o="1993" height_o="1121" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d6b741b5a06ed22e1b1f4a66a977f363ec135bbf0d565d6c503dbd1fcde0204/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-25-at-13.45.23.jpeg" data-mid="197433339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d6b741b5a06ed22e1b1f4a66a977f363ec135bbf0d565d6c503dbd1fcde0204/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-25-at-13.45.23.jpeg" /> 250ml fresh afternoon urine (24°C) + 50ml water to top up the tank + 12g waterfree soda + 4g vit C, start developing at 20°C for 18 min., temperature dropped to 14°C during the process <img width="2048" height="1535" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54705445829493a22ef1e65394338090beb08bd74da4d5d78f12e8a061e4019c/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-25-at-13.47.56.jpeg" data-mid="197433349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54705445829493a22ef1e65394338090beb08bd74da4d5d78f12e8a061e4019c/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-25-at-13.47.56.jpeg" /> 300 ml of 7 months old urine (very alkaline), letting it sit in the hot bath to let the temperature rise to 24°C, + 5g Vit C, developing for 20 min. (temperature dropped to 14°C during the process) ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage Boiling the piss, scanned urine-developed positive<img width="2169" height="1605" width_o="2169" height_o="1605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d2510b91a140b801387cbe5a0ada194b3d171175740a58637be5e7c8163bac0/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--2.jpg" data-mid="231699941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d2510b91a140b801387cbe5a0ada194b3d171175740a58637be5e7c8163bac0/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--2.jpg" />Still image, Boiling the Piss, 2023/2024 <img width="2169" height="1605" width_o="2169" height_o="1605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10f0721242f56077371e9418b53e56f0ad592b86cece9cd9e59d4509eacda370/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--3.jpg" data-mid="231699951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10f0721242f56077371e9418b53e56f0ad592b86cece9cd9e59d4509eacda370/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--3.jpg" />Still image, Boiling the Piss, 2023/2024 <img width="2169" height="1605" width_o="2169" height_o="1605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b15d8013c42ed7ebe6947ad854e53a15204565e9806502c65a4fd43e50a77c2/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--5.jpg" data-mid="231699962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b15d8013c42ed7ebe6947ad854e53a15204565e9806502c65a4fd43e50a77c2/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--5.jpg" /> Still image, Boiling the Piss, 2023/2024 <img width="2169" height="1605" width_o="2169" height_o="1605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3942fcae133f224634efc573842af7be03f6a15cf37e01f20e5f19d95774e45f/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--6.jpg" data-mid="231699963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3942fcae133f224634efc573842af7be03f6a15cf37e01f20e5f19d95774e45f/Still-image--Boiling-the-Piss--2024--Michaela-Davidova--6.jpg" />Still image, Boiling the Piss, 2023/2024 <img width="3456" height="3456" width_o="3456" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80544ca152a0625c513d391d7aaca88516dc01deaa1865c6283948112d9dd573/20230705_144218.jpg" data-mid="197433084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80544ca152a0625c513d391d7aaca88516dc01deaa1865c6283948112d9dd573/20230705_144218.jpg" /> Evaporation of urine, formation of minerals at the bottom of the pot, 2023 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ceada308057810f14fc1905e5d54f9e9b6e6a7be7ab73c3c010d2440f53d799/beach-Den-Haag--Boiling-the-Piss--image-by-Hedwich-Rooks-4.jpeg" data-mid="197586243" border="0" 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height_o="808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/593c59c77514981d580ccaf9558031465550f3f09a85eeb43c75faf62540e31a/Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders-sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpeg" data-mid="152392331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/593c59c77514981d580ccaf9558031465550f3f09a85eeb43c75faf62540e31a/Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders-sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpeg" /> Constructed Wetlands &amp; Deconstructed Borders is a continuing research into ecological thinking within the alternative photographic practice. It was initiated during the Photographic Garden - the artist in residence programme run by the Sustainable Darkroom. Research explores the application of constructed wetlands: a wastewater treatment method within the photographic darkroom and the fluidity of the wet bodies. Instead of solely focusing on the remediation functions of wetlands, I follow their transformative processes and analyse how they inform processes within the photographic darkroom. I wade through shallow waters, follow creeping rootstalk of water mints and common reeds, and precipitate from the grains of soil. But I do not become remediated, I do not become clean. Instead, I get digested. As wetlands seep through the ecosystems, I become soaked until it is not so clear where my water and your paddle begins and ends. This project is an invitation to explore the digestive cycle of wet bodies and to seek connection through the substances that flow in and out and processes that alter. The project is also my graduation project at MA&nbsp;Ecology Futures (the Master Institute of Visual Cultures). I build on texts of feminist writers and explore concepts of the material self through the methods of attunement, care, transcorporeality and establishing relationships with more-than-human in the photographic darkroom and perhaps further in life too. (EKP excellence in research award 2022) <img width="1050" height="1706" width_o="1050" height_o="1706" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c978c0a934831e60187b3efc2971711df55614f8ca2b43b00c6249b2304d3555/3-darkroom-wastewaters-1--processed-and-collected-by-Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" data-mid="152391726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c978c0a934831e60187b3efc2971711df55614f8ca2b43b00c6249b2304d3555/3-darkroom-wastewaters-1--processed-and-collected-by-Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" />MA gradutation show, Den Bosch, 2022 <img width="1050" height="1706" width_o="1050" height_o="1706" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5955f16a3e1851cb211e4a62026fdca2fd5bcd00d3b327a5aecc510fabfb835/1-constructed-wetland-installation-1--Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" data-mid="152392029" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2a879730f5ef338fcde1fcfe858b68f4c50140b6811413c7072133e1a19ef9d/chemigram-scan.jpg" data-mid="174252574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2a879730f5ef338fcde1fcfe858b68f4c50140b6811413c7072133e1a19ef9d/chemigram-scan.jpg" /> Chemigrams made with the used darkroom waters processed through the constructed wetlands and the ingredients picked from the found shopping lists ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="3456" height="3456" width_o="3456" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7dec7dacab9a7da1c35bb6da49bb9c777903bee556531c5a99cfa66dd95b8d4/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022--2.jpg" data-mid="152390287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7dec7dacab9a7da1c35bb6da49bb9c777903bee556531c5a99cfa66dd95b8d4/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022--2.jpg" />Hot Compost exhibition series, Leeds, 2022 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ddedc2820c8f4b9ecb1fde91be38d08b2abbc570ebef85d0759db157c1a7857/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152390607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ddedc2820c8f4b9ecb1fde91be38d08b2abbc570ebef85d0759db157c1a7857/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" />Hot Compost exhibition series, Leeds, 2022 <img width="3456" height="3456" width_o="3456" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6126019d596e57c85b24be7f6dcdbe69804c958901b6a0ca899f6eeb23f252df/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022--4.jpg" data-mid="152390296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6126019d596e57c85b24be7f6dcdbe69804c958901b6a0ca899f6eeb23f252df/Hot-Compost-exhibition--Michaela-Davidova--2022--4.jpg" /> Hot Compost Exhibition series, Leeds, 2022 <img width="720" height="1170" width_o="720" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e3b63f87f66d656e643709c9a5e448fd3d947ee9d459d79772f69df3ecd564f/Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--sketch--Michaelal-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152395014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/0e3b63f87f66d656e643709c9a5e448fd3d947ee9d459d79772f69df3ecd564f/Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--sketch--Michaelal-Davidova--2022.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/386e972d4e8114b97576bb76bc510d7ce860d7fe0b14a9a91faad4e1524bb082/publication-Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova--2022-small.JPG" data-mid="152392685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/386e972d4e8114b97576bb76bc510d7ce860d7fe0b14a9a91faad4e1524bb082/publication-Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova--2022-small.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bef549606f785c7a3e5042ca5395ecaf74dfd5f411b2a6b71f1e5743aefb2c3/publication-Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova-2--2022-small.JPG" data-mid="152393081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bef549606f785c7a3e5042ca5395ecaf74dfd5f411b2a6b71f1e5743aefb2c3/publication-Constructed-wetlands---Deconstructed-borders--Michaela-Davidova-2--2022-small.JPG" /> Sketch and the publication Constructed wetlands &amp; Deconstructed borders, 2022 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77124354b3d3fbef75d48d8a3bdfe36350103455b24867c1edcee415b00d061e/1-DIY-column-chromatography-experiment-with-cyanotype-wash-waters--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpeg" data-mid="152394429" border="0" data-scale="46" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c25fada4f52e0dc9d43835cb4b71247de30635def18351046517bc4e0c75e078/7-DIY-column-chromatography-experiment-with-cyanotype-wash-waters--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpeg" /> DIY column chromatography experiment with a cyanotype wash water, 2022 https://michaeladavidova.com/The-darkroom-as-an-organism Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:37 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/The-darkroom-as-an-organism The photographic darkroom as an organism 2022–ongoing<img width="1781" height="1648" width_o="1781" height_o="1648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0786d2fc12556625f5913bef63d400448ad43f8e2bdf2ac61d07436c953c84f/the-darkroom-as-an-organism--sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2022.png" data-mid="152408391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0786d2fc12556625f5913bef63d400448ad43f8e2bdf2ac61d07436c953c84f/the-darkroom-as-an-organism--sketch--Michaela-Davidova--2022.png" /> The darkroom as an organism is a concept developed during my study at MA Ecology Futures and subsequently during my residency with the Sustainable Darkroom collective (2021-2022) where I was busy researching constructed wetlands, a wastewater treatment method and the potential of its implementation alongside the photographic darkroom. An organism is a material structure composed of interdependent parts - the body of the photography practitioner is intertwined with the materials. I envision the darkroom as an organism becomes close to a map or an archive, functioning as a storytelling/listening board that aims to explore entangled worlds of humans and more-than-humans meeting in the photographic darkroom. I am hugely inspired by the works of Anna Tsing and Elaine Gan who developed the practices of attunement as a way to investigate the temporal layers within places.&nbsp; The darkroom as an organism is an entity with its peculiar tempo digesting materials, processes and substances inwards and expanding further from its dark walls into the outward worlds. It permeates and it lets seep through.I map the relations from an alchemist's as well as from a carer's point of view. And in collaborations. Since my research is always circling around the notions of sustainability, it is fascinating to question the tensions and layers that accumulate through handling my practice as an entity. <img width="2432" height="1600" width_o="2432" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f16a3e2f01e43ea40da490e60b0c9b8f3691355ebb8e0735f53b8bf4e9e5236/Aspergillus-niger-and-bodily-swabs-in-the-Petri-dish-with-the-photographic-film--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152409739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f16a3e2f01e43ea40da490e60b0c9b8f3691355ebb8e0735f53b8bf4e9e5236/Aspergillus-niger-and-bodily-swabs-in-the-Petri-dish-with-the-photographic-film--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" /><img width="2432" height="1572" width_o="2432" height_o="1572" 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were treated with silver nitrate. <img width="1772" height="1181" width_o="1772" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/765044caf8c9d04b576fe8daffc922daf2a25dea2aaf0d695fd536dc835289d9/3-darkroom-wastewaters-4--processed-and-collected-by-Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" data-mid="152406018" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/765044caf8c9d04b576fe8daffc922daf2a25dea2aaf0d695fd536dc835289d9/3-darkroom-wastewaters-4--processed-and-collected-by-Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" /> Mosquitos born in the water collected from the cyanotype wash bath. <img width="1772" height="1181" width_o="1772" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cb2467009c2e2caa6d94311d72c3041536734e8a82ad3c43273863aed5cd047/5-DIY-column-chromatography-with-the-cyanotype-wash-water-1--Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" data-mid="152406027" border="0" data-scale="50" 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data-mid="152406030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38fe1614bd8e703f4f1fabfc84c977dd63e5a6a4bd5d04ed5f1ab018d31b67cd/5-DIY-column-chromatography-with-the-cyanotype-wash-water-3--Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" /> DIY column chromatography filtering the cyanotype wash water and urine photographic developer and staining the piece of a found plaster. <img width="2456" height="1304" width_o="2456" height_o="1304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b902c96c2d40862f9575c77500079f41ba9ca2c63e6e7d61cbffc92bd5b069ec/Layers-of-the-cyanotype-wash-water-collected-on-the-glass-jar--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152409308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b902c96c2d40862f9575c77500079f41ba9ca2c63e6e7d61cbffc92bd5b069ec/Layers-of-the-cyanotype-wash-water-collected-on-the-glass-jar--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" />Layers of the cyanotype wash water marked on the glass jar. https://michaeladavidova.com/Heads-listening-to-belly-sounds Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:38 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Heads-listening-to-belly-sounds Heads listening to belly sounds 2022 The photographic series of hybrid chemigrams/chemilumens and alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype on agar agar that explore the relation of our selfs and bellies. As I come from the culture that highlights thinking as a core of my being, I dive into my material self through the practice of belly listening.‘my belly makes noises, therefore I am’&nbsp; ‘my belly is a consortium of many, therefore I am’ I am an enthusiastic collector of found shopping lists and as I go through the ingredients I am fascinated by their intra-action inside our guts and on the photographic paper. Within my practice I also learn about digestive processes of plants and multiple beings helping me to understand the symbiotic relationships we can nurture.&nbsp; ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="13516" height="7936" width_o="13516" height_o="7936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6309e8a6a277825411679645ef9a424367acab775903a04bcf2c188b39295469/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022-2.jpg" data-mid="152489487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6309e8a6a277825411679645ef9a424367acab775903a04bcf2c188b39295469/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022-2.jpg" />1 week fermented fotographic paper in the leftover kimchi water and exposed with a contact print. <img width="13516" height="7936" width_o="13516" height_o="7936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1030303fb215933aefbc4d624734aa2f75c6faac76ceb81c55467d659b79cf0/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152489492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1030303fb215933aefbc4d624734aa2f75c6faac76ceb81c55467d659b79cf0/My-head-listening-to-belly-sounds--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" />Lemon juice and stearic acid on a photographic paper exposed with a contact print as a lumen process. <img width="2896" height="4096" width_o="2896" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/346c12c92f78975f76b3540d544ebccc6b4a4044cb1956f31ec623047c61697f/From-the-collection-of-found-shopping-lists--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" data-mid="152490017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/346c12c92f78975f76b3540d544ebccc6b4a4044cb1956f31ec623047c61697f/From-the-collection-of-found-shopping-lists--Michaela-Davidova--2022.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="4096" width_o="2896" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d84052bc4b44cdeff7bab0b1ec1d6383a8cc965d65f730b93a2bcbf288f35e6/From-the-collection-of-found-shopping-lists--Michaela-Davidova--2022-2.jpg" data-mid="152490018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d84052bc4b44cdeff7bab0b1ec1d6383a8cc965d65f730b93a2bcbf288f35e6/From-the-collection-of-found-shopping-lists--Michaela-Davidova--2022-2.jpg" /> ‘Heads listening to belly sounds’ is series of chemigram images incorporating different ingredients inspired by the found shopping lists. <img width="1772" height="1181" width_o="1772" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0325b23af15cd390cea70b2c2f7592226d62f4b5f1c10fc11bf25f4a98fe3423/4-Julia-s-Head-Listening-to-Belly-Sounds--cyanotype-on-agar-agar--Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" data-mid="152490112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0325b23af15cd390cea70b2c2f7592226d62f4b5f1c10fc11bf25f4a98fe3423/4-Julia-s-Head-Listening-to-Belly-Sounds--cyanotype-on-agar-agar--Michaela-Davidova--2022.JPG" /> Julia’s head listening to belly sounds, cyanotype on agar agar laid on glass, 2022 https://michaeladavidova.com/96-human-waste-bags-left-on-the-Moon Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:39 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/96-human-waste-bags-left-on-the-Moon 96 human waste bags left on the Moon 2021 This is the short film study made for the EYE Research Lab in Amsterdam under the supervision of a filmmaker and teacher Noud Heerkens. The film 96 human waste bags left on the Moon (2021, 7’ 30’’) is divided into three parts, each is responding to the proximity of a body. The story was initially inspired by a news article announcing there are currently 96 human waste bags left on the Moon. This information made me curious about human impact during the exploration missions, and the ambiguity of terms such as exploration and its antonym ignorance. The research of the film was influenced by the book Down to Earth by Bruno Latour who reminds us that the Earth is a critical zone surrounding and including us not the Globe as seen from above in the space. As human beings are curious, we have a power to get to see so far away, expand the horizons as well as inevitably change them and forget our closest localities. The film triptych developed into a study of the close and distant, and through listening to abjected bodily sounds, it is an invitation to land nearby our bodies. The first part is using an recorded discus sion between NASA astronauts while observing a surface of the Moon, the second part of the triptych translates belly sounds into a visual language. The third part is a collaboration with dancer Femke Adema who is using the centre of her body - the belly - to move within the space while waiting to depart. ‘The opposite of exploration is said to be ignorance. To be ignorant means not curious enough, not passionate to learn, not hungry to discover what lies behind the horizon in the unfamiliar lands of nobody. How could the world exist without not knowing? Places so far away suddenly become transparent, closer than our own skin. To explore means to travel in or through, to alter, to search, to make familiar, to start a conversation, to usurp, to get to know, to discover, to appreciate, to appropriate, to colonise, to get into the movement things that will never stay the same. How can the world exist with the irreversible? Manoeuvring through time and space to move out of our bodies, but the intestinal motility calls into motion. The landing.’ ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ca9464327e2f38bdfc53931bfa8da95d8c8759612a9a0a9ee7d954dd11dca33/96-Human-Waste-Bags-Left-on-the-Moon--Michaela-Davidova--2021--2.jpg" data-mid="232807161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ca9464327e2f38bdfc53931bfa8da95d8c8759612a9a0a9ee7d954dd11dca33/96-Human-Waste-Bags-Left-on-the-Moon--Michaela-Davidova--2021--2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db3074314049bca8af5f5ee691b1ad8fdd83312a323cadf164efbf7a977cb9fb/96-Human-Waste-Bags-Left-on-the-Moon--Michaela-Davidova--2021--3.jpg" data-mid="232807165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db3074314049bca8af5f5ee691b1ad8fdd83312a323cadf164efbf7a977cb9fb/96-Human-Waste-Bags-Left-on-the-Moon--Michaela-Davidova--2021--3.jpg" /> Still images from the 3 chapters of the film study of belly sounds captured on the reversal film, developed with urine-based developer https://michaeladavidova.com/Hoard Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:38 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Hoard The hoard of the world seen through the eye of an aluminium can 2017 - ongoing The aluminium can has a perfect shape to be transformed into the pinhole camera making it light-tight with duct tape. The photographic paper 5x7 inch fits into the standard size of the beer can or if cropped it fits the soda can. Imperfect pinhole pictures taken on the sensitive photographic paper are showing a distorted reality of the surrounding world.The place is familiar – the tiles of the pavement, the lamp, the fence, the trees and the traffic lights. It could be the street behind our house or the sightseeing we had visited during the holidays. Although the angle has changed, thus we can’t be sure whose projection is offered to us. The unsettling, as Freud (1917 – 1919) would describe, happens when the perspective which should have remained hidden, comes to light and provokes the uncanny mood. Suddenly, the agency to look is given to the leftover objects and we (humans and our neighbourhoods) are in the centre of their gaze.The images are blurry, greyish, with shadows or ghosts and patches of developer. The curved shape of the can makes the wide angle images. It seems like they are showing the views of an intruder who is watching us somewhere from the bushes, from a distance. Often, there is a figure standing in the image. It is me when taking a photograph, although due to a long exposure the person can’t be fully recognized and could be compared to any human who is standing face to face to something that is mysteriously staring at them. The uncanny atmosphere of the images is revealed by the vital materiality of the light-sensitive photographic paper and the nature of the pinhole photography. The images have the power to reveal the story which we have not seen before.The project started in October 2017 during the community festival Made in Roath in Cardiff.&nbsp;The abjected boxes, tins and cans caught my attention. As a pinhole photographer and craftivist, I wanted to respond to the call of rubbish and started to make pinhole cameras out of the found containers, carefully inserting them in the same place, and in the same position to take a pinhole image from their perspective. The aluminium cans are prevailing. How is the world seen through the eyes of those rejected objects? And is it me who is the photographer or the object itself? Is it a person who left the litter on the spot, the wind that drifted it to the side way or a seagull that got curious? Can we shift the gaze and while we are being looked at by the objects around can we think of stories the vibrant matter reveals to us? I started with picking up the rubbish... I am tracking the GPS location and taking a digital image recording its visual position. I clean the rubbish and turn it into the pinhole camera. Afterwards, I place such cameras in the same position as found and take the pinhole image at their height. When I am finished I load that information with the image into the open map and leave the camera on site for anybody to pick up and take away. Eventually I pick the containers and bring them to the workshop to make pinhole cameras together with others. link to the online map here <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a308564f16c45deefbb1e3a9406abb2080fca1d574f1b446ebbb10287b679bcc/pin101-rubbish--Own-Your-Own-Space--Michaela-Davidova--2017---ongoing.jpg" data-mid="152506588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a308564f16c45deefbb1e3a9406abb2080fca1d574f1b446ebbb10287b679bcc/pin101-rubbish--Own-Your-Own-Space--Michaela-Davidova--2017---ongoing.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c63d938db4b9ce550854aa9f129d14a35e77ea2d9cc5549119820dc9d8fa28b/pin96-rubbish--Own-Your-Own-Space--Michaela-Davidova--2017---ongoing.jpg" data-mid="152506587" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf19a62b35c5504e612cf489601f570a314bbd3e0521f7d73c82c315c52f5ec3/pin117-rubbish--Own-Your-Own-Space--Michaela-Davidova--2017---ongoing.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="4048" height="2208" width_o="4048" height_o="2208" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14aa45053124dd704517fb625f86fe91b67576973b93160f594864ab6807df37/Pin123_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14aa45053124dd704517fb625f86fe91b67576973b93160f594864ab6807df37/Pin123_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 6°17'36.1"W 36°31'59.6"N // 2019 // <img width="2969" height="4047" width_o="2969" height_o="4047" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ba3a106d8041ebc7843ff5de2632b4fae4fff7f47d154b665ef56cfb7e266c9/Pin118_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ba3a106d8041ebc7843ff5de2632b4fae4fff7f47d154b665ef56cfb7e266c9/Pin118_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 5°59'20.1" W 37°22'54.8" N // 2019 // <img width="4047" height="2937" width_o="4047" height_o="2937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1120a43007e049cc6f51559fcc7676e331f6101165d8b5624cb0efd60628fdb/Pin124_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1120a43007e049cc6f51559fcc7676e331f6101165d8b5624cb0efd60628fdb/Pin124_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 2°56'53.7" W 43°15'53.0" N // 2019 // <img width="1408" height="2048" width_o="1408" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1a71457e80c2aabe2be1591023e405fc6a04fad63275cbbc0f55e500dcd0fce/pin128_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" data-mid="152500933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1a71457e80c2aabe2be1591023e405fc6a04fad63275cbbc0f55e500dcd0fce/pin128_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" /> // 5° 4' 18.8" E 51° 33' 43.9999" N // 2020 // <img width="2848" height="4000" width_o="2848" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bbd5bbfeac14fe037141417409d87d74cdd6fe35016234f900005d38d56b7c3/pin2_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bbd5bbfeac14fe037141417409d87d74cdd6fe35016234f900005d38d56b7c3/pin2_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 9' 15.8" W 51° 28' 45.3" N // 2017 // <img width="3992" height="2136" width_o="3992" height_o="2136" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a33fb69efb0c182a436f3ba1db46806cba270e1922e7e776e127309a1a816936/pin15_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500935" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a33fb69efb0c182a436f3ba1db46806cba270e1922e7e776e127309a1a816936/pin15_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 9' 10.9001" W 51° 29' 52.1002" N // 2017 // <img width="4064" height="2979" width_o="4064" height_o="2979" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79c7384a81dd82809efe7892d56c25d589b5aee39d5b53c78582622ac6715332/pin22_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" data-mid="152500936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79c7384a81dd82809efe7892d56c25d589b5aee39d5b53c78582622ac6715332/pin22_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" /> // 3° 10' 24.9215" W 51° 29' 8.6885" N // 2017 // <img width="4064" height="2979" width_o="4064" height_o="2979" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a97a3fb685564be94feebdfc27b8fdcc0530924145b4ae351d047eaf383bc1f5/pin31_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" data-mid="152500937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a97a3fb685564be94feebdfc27b8fdcc0530924145b4ae351d047eaf383bc1f5/pin31_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" /> // 3° 10' 26.7384" W 51° 29' 37.5" N // 2017 // <img width="3056" height="4184" width_o="3056" height_o="4184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc07af826a046ddf78dbb0ffff47bc05e2e4baafb4eb8360bdc74ee7856827f5/pin35_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" data-mid="152500938" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc07af826a046ddf78dbb0ffff47bc05e2e4baafb4eb8360bdc74ee7856827f5/pin35_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.png" /> // 3° 10' 2.6" W 51° 28' 35.6999" N // 2017 // <img width="2971" height="4159" width_o="2971" height_o="4159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeebe53b33a5452ee810003e04fb1e1f0366e764fabfb3f48c22dd28fe01ea8e/pin42_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeebe53b33a5452ee810003e04fb1e1f0366e764fabfb3f48c22dd28fe01ea8e/pin42_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 10' 57.6998" W 51° 28' 29.8999" N // 2017 // <img width="2973" height="4189" width_o="2973" height_o="4189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a07d1623b5eee763fd6d3004fe838adfbeb11be838ad12ac427db99e1656c00/pin54_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a07d1623b5eee763fd6d3004fe838adfbeb11be838ad12ac427db99e1656c00/pin54_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 9' 52.8001" W 51° 29' 53.4001" N // 2017 // <img width="2987" height="4180" width_o="2987" height_o="4180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/351bc9cf0bd87eef85dfe37c8f6d225f7c3ea4ef975a843163eae7c3c578c25d/pin58_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/351bc9cf0bd87eef85dfe37c8f6d225f7c3ea4ef975a843163eae7c3c578c25d/pin58_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 10' 22.3" W 51° 29' 29.1001" N // 2017 // <img width="2973" height="4153" width_o="2973" height_o="4153" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/354c32e1189b89e761f36ec59894b224a8078ed38ce48086029df591bd1a38f9/pin61_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/354c32e1189b89e761f36ec59894b224a8078ed38ce48086029df591bd1a38f9/pin61_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 3° 10' 14.7" W 51° 29' 31.7" N // 2017 // <img width="4175" height="2967" width_o="4175" height_o="2967" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/538bdd64c79a87e5204f08e8e4ce52317444a6374d681d782e2f7510a9afe909/pin65_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/538bdd64c79a87e5204f08e8e4ce52317444a6374d681d782e2f7510a9afe909/pin65_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 0° 6' 27.2002" W 51° 31' 19.4999" N // 2017 // <img width="4636" height="3246" width_o="4636" height_o="3246" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/849f4db89a90072a0f9ff4a446bfdc557b12bb26e7276c3a0117c38b87e3b407/pin96_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" data-mid="152500944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/849f4db89a90072a0f9ff4a446bfdc557b12bb26e7276c3a0117c38b87e3b407/pin96_Own_Your_Own_Space-Michaela_Davidova-2017-ongoing-Pinhole-Carftivism-Public_Space.jpg" /> // 30°44'15.6" E 46°27'53.9" N // 2018 // https://michaeladavidova.com/The-Imprint Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:39 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/The-Imprint The Imprint 2019 What is imprint we leave on our environment, and what imprint remains on us? In April 2019, I made a cycling journey across Wales, the country which was my home for three years. From Cardiff to Bangor, I cycled and pushed the trailer loaded with my photographic equipment and took the pictures along the road with self-made 4x5 inch camera. My friend, artist and activist Eva Jašková, joined me. Prior the journey, I made The Imprint Machine out of a discarded 3D printer and programmed it to read the GPS of our cycling route. Aidan Taylor wrote the code in Python3 programming language. Each day of the journey was recorded and imprinted on the photographic paper with the beam of light. The imprint depicted on the photogrpahic paper can be read in many ways as the exposure of the light becomes code itself. Is the line relative to landscape which we traveled and thus similar to a contour line? Or does it relate to the life which we experienced? The imprinted line is the record of the landscape reflecting efforts and actions we do in any journey we undertake in our lives. The photographs were taken on Ilford Harman Direct Positive paper and developed with the Caffenol-C developer off grid using the dark Decathlon tent as an improvised photographic darkroom, in the locations away from the heavy light-polution. The bottles of mixed developers were multiplying further we cycled and returned with us home. After the arrival back to Cardiff, I made the photograms of the objects collected during the road (seaweed, sheep hair, coal, found shopping list, piece of glass, ticket to the world biggest camera obscura in Aberystwyth) on the leftovers of negative photographic paper Kentmere VC Select Fine Lustre also with the coffee-based developer. <img width="1080" height="1290" width_o="1080" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afb26bd4dcac3c399651aca622abe40bac805b6f9604b1ba3eb01e6432356306/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4x5inch1.jpg" data-mid="152504593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afb26bd4dcac3c399651aca622abe40bac805b6f9604b1ba3eb01e6432356306/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4x5inch1.jpg" /><img width="1080" height="1290" width_o="1080" height_o="1290" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79ccf7001d248b2a100ac4a775ff5ef316cbf0ee0b1ac732ea02600ff3c625af/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4x5inch2.jpg" data-mid="152504594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79ccf7001d248b2a100ac4a775ff5ef316cbf0ee0b1ac732ea02600ff3c625af/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4x5inch2.jpg" /> Ilford Harman Direct Positive paper developed with the Caffenol-C developer.&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1512" width_o="1080" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5aa2421291e0556732036282de3bceb3fd385566df5a61ac8770abe7542910a/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4.jpg" data-mid="173505552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5aa2421291e0556732036282de3bceb3fd385566df5a61ac8770abe7542910a/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--4.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bdd75c05c2fdd9e941d44e6393dbcadeafa8a11fc1aa25ce7e4732be6cc65e2/The-Imprint--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--1.jpg" data-mid="152503928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bdd75c05c2fdd9e941d44e6393dbcadeafa8a11fc1aa25ce7e4732be6cc65e2/The-Imprint--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--1.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a87c76a40ac3ef1fd31962646ea32e901ed694e67f44ac3eceb09f6d590e8f25/The-Imprint--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--3.jpg" data-mid="152503927" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a87c76a40ac3ef1fd31962646ea32e901ed694e67f44ac3eceb09f6d590e8f25/The-Imprint--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019--3.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1512" width_o="1080" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e59322df88da34518d1acc95278a08d03721b8e1b4361f9a543a5028b1858032/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019.jpg" data-mid="152503793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e59322df88da34518d1acc95278a08d03721b8e1b4361f9a543a5028b1858032/The-Imprint-Machine--install-image--exhibition-Going-in-Circles--Hoxton-253--Michaela-Davidova--2019.jpg" /> Installation view, Going in Circles, Hoxton 253 art project space, London. <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e0fc0ee77b239d3c8e3f27fffb52fc036d0f8abce9c0c1728cecfb537f370a9/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--1.jpg" data-mid="152504035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e0fc0ee77b239d3c8e3f27fffb52fc036d0f8abce9c0c1728cecfb537f370a9/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--1.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f30725d4e7dba81651a83b9d097971de3145590a4fbe68d8fb34baa13ce26df/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--9.jpg" data-mid="152504032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f30725d4e7dba81651a83b9d097971de3145590a4fbe68d8fb34baa13ce26df/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--9.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15bb1d104d84a96d97cace34410fac1710a04bae6379d4286133a4ad08550ff6/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--13.jpg" data-mid="152504033" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15bb1d104d84a96d97cace34410fac1710a04bae6379d4286133a4ad08550ff6/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--13.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1512" width_o="1080" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/450979c9015abddc0411a29548b3555ead42ab6fb40f2fff514883f639ba6a8d/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--30.jpg" data-mid="152504034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/450979c9015abddc0411a29548b3555ead42ab6fb40f2fff514883f639ba6a8d/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--30.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43336498d40cd18e059e10120c5d178f94163e0a6f570372f1b84272f13b0def/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--15.jpg" data-mid="152504151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43336498d40cd18e059e10120c5d178f94163e0a6f570372f1b84272f13b0def/The-Imprint--Michaela-Davidova--2019--image-by-Eva-Jaskova--15.jpg" /> The images taken by my friend, artist and activist Eva Jašková. https://michaeladavidova.com/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:53:40 +0000 michaela davidova https://michaeladavidova.com/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs Pedal powered solargraphs 2016 7 beer cans converted into the pinhole cameras were left along the coast of the Netherlands during my first big cycling journey from the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic in summer 2016. 2 cameras were left at my starting point in the Cable Street Studios. Some of the images were saved and some have got lost or the cameras got open and the images signed up. Photographs were scanned with the pedal energy of a home made bike generator. Scanning the solargraphs from the journey through the home made pedal generator. <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5187668aa1875e4952236c87a57327c23033f0a03fab1c99c72cd8c3d7233f97/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--5.jpg" data-mid="152507165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5187668aa1875e4952236c87a57327c23033f0a03fab1c99c72cd8c3d7233f97/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--5.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a83493fab6adb6dff5703a102b61fb697ec002b9decf9a1b6892a9e739d44e34/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--6.jpg" data-mid="152507166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a83493fab6adb6dff5703a102b61fb697ec002b9decf9a1b6892a9e739d44e34/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--6.jpg" /> A3 size digital prints of solargraphs with various exposure times. ︎︎︎ Back to Homepage <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/366cdda5617b2221c84abffdf6dbf62fc1418bdcbcd968c631fc4816c6e3ed67/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--1.jpg" data-mid="152507149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/366cdda5617b2221c84abffdf6dbf62fc1418bdcbcd968c631fc4816c6e3ed67/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--1.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6ac3f8bc9a845ed4de56a455810266a0a2a8afae680b8e24dfe5d527ca002f8/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--2.jpg" data-mid="152507150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6ac3f8bc9a845ed4de56a455810266a0a2a8afae680b8e24dfe5d527ca002f8/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--2.jpg" /> Installation view, Going in Circles, Hoxton 253 art project space, London <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18e759f50f13e21f1a94e956663d48d50887bb6aa72561dfd96ef3bd4c072782/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--12.jpg" data-mid="152507169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18e759f50f13e21f1a94e956663d48d50887bb6aa72561dfd96ef3bd4c072782/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--12.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/016a86aff6b0467b5210e067a367274cef070ea0121777d4b9350f0925215fb6/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--4.jpg" data-mid="152507164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/016a86aff6b0467b5210e067a367274cef070ea0121777d4b9350f0925215fb6/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--4.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84cc434964fa6b97735810244039018a3ddf6d88ee40d9e2aac382176e997946/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--3.jpg" data-mid="152507163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84cc434964fa6b97735810244039018a3ddf6d88ee40d9e2aac382176e997946/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--3.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1512" width_o="1080" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02c06384348e3c5e1d1ea755fd1ed3d56c2c8f48084efa1cf304ba375f91c002/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--13.jpg" data-mid="152507170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02c06384348e3c5e1d1ea755fd1ed3d56c2c8f48084efa1cf304ba375f91c002/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--13.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f01a8adea361a4fc35cd12022ee400f21613015cf829a72c8ac50c047ea0e630/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--7.jpg" data-mid="152507167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f01a8adea361a4fc35cd12022ee400f21613015cf829a72c8ac50c047ea0e630/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--7.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c9aeb48ccd4b2e98e9436751cc4be43a94048493e18b2ae382ee6ab2646d529/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--10.jpg" data-mid="152507168" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c9aeb48ccd4b2e98e9436751cc4be43a94048493e18b2ae382ee6ab2646d529/Pedal-Powered-Solargraphs--Michaela-Davidova--2016--10.jpg" /> The marks on the photographic paper after the pinhole camera was open.