‘A stone tape is a material object that has “recorded” the energy of a past event. Widely popularized by British author Nigel Kneale in his 1972 teleplay The Stone Tape, beliefs in the recording ability of objects and environments span the practices of heritage preservation, paranormal investigation, sound and media theory, and spiritual pilgrimage. But if materials do, in fact, record the past, how do contemporary encounters act as instances of playback?’ (Center for Documentary Art)
I am using my family archive of slide film images from the 1970s to revisit and record the rocky coastlines of the south west, and then employ tactile processes to mould this encounter into the photographic prints.
VICTORIA AHRENS 