Leah Raintree

hand that breaks the weather is a series of gelatin silver prints that combine drawing and photographic processes that mimic glacial activity within the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The images are produced using regional sediment, stone and ice in a drawing process on large format negatives, with gestures of pressure, dragging, and depositing producing both a material residue and an image. The resulting drawings are used in an analog photographic process, allowing light, time, and enlargement to act as agents in the final work.  | 2019, 36 x 36" each, gelatin silver prints