Up in Smoke

Southafrican Diane Victor painted these amazing portraits applying carbon from candle smoke on white paper.

The portraits are made with the deposits of carbon from candle smoke on white paper. They are exceedingly fragile and can be easily damaged, disintegrating with physical contact as the carbon soot is dislodged from the paper. I was interested in the extremely fragile nature of these human lives and of all human life, attempting to translate this fragility into portraits made from a medium as impermanent as smoke itself.

See and learn more about that project at Michael Stevenson