The Process of CLICHÉ VERRE

Cliché Verre was first used in France from 1853 to about 1875, mainly for landscape images.

A cliché verre is a photograph whose underlying negative was not produced by means of a camera, but in a manual manner. An opaque coated glass plate serves as the negative carrier. I use candle soot to blacken the plate.. 

The material glass thus represents one of the fundamentals of the process.

I draw on glass plates previously coated with candle soot. Then printed on „FOMA“ silver gelatin paper.

I use bird feathers for drawing. I prefer the most delicate lines. A gentle tender touch. A small breeze, or gust of wind, and the delicate particles of soot are gone.  I acknowledge the ephemerality.