The residency work undertaken at SAGA, Inderøy, sought to follow the daily ebbs and flows of Borgenfjorden and Trondheimsfjorden, and to understand, by way of mark- making and journaling, their streams of energy and their facilitating of both life and death.

Through a series of experimental prints made in-situ with algae, waters and sediment, I looked to make visible the intricate lives entwined with these changing tides and to reflect upon their relationship within this particular
ecosystem. I spent time returning to the same sites in order to familiarise myself, as a practitioner
from elsewhere, with the everyday nuances of a particular place and moment. In my experiments
with anthotypes and cyanotypes, I worked with the cycles of the tides – and the weather – and
sought to reduce the environmental impact of my work as much as possible.

The anthotypes provided a near-non-toxic way of making (they consist mostly of algae) and the cyanotypes
provided a lesser-toxic (compared to traditional darkroom printing) way of making. I experimented
with printing and toning with flora found in the area – nettle, firewood and bladderwrack were
among the more successful. Within the darkroom itself, I prepped printing materials, exposed some
prints using a UV lamp and also developed my own 135 films of images taken in the area. I
produced some silver gelatin prints of images but focused on a series of black and white
'watergrams' made with water sourced from the fjords as a way to mimic the patterns of motion seen
in the confluence current.