These camera-less lumen prints are made by leaving pieces of folded black and white photographic paper in my kitchen sink, where they get covered in dishes, cups and forks, get dripped on, saturated with dishwater and food, and accumulate the whole day's detritus into an image. Then I photograph the print before it begins to fade, and then print it as a pigment print, sometimes repeating this process several times.

These works draw on process-based practices and Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ concept of maintenance art as they explore the entanglement of domestic and artistic labor.

Although these images may appear abstract, they are entirely indexical: the imprint of real light and real matter on light-sensitive paper. However, in the absence of a lens, these images lose their mimetic qualities and become objects in themselves, pointing to their own material surfaces, in the here and now.