Weekly Artist Post - Liesa Collins

Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton creates eye-scorching squares that look like digital confections. But they're actually painstakingly handmade – and nothing you see here is really in color. Nothing is due to a hand in Photoshop and she ends up finding one good image in a sea of about 200 sheets of film. Her images nod to color field painting. She uses the same negative over and over again while placing new color filters in front of the negative. Sometimes she'll move the camera up and down. Her only subject is a white box that gets manipulated in the camera/developing using  a "tripartite additive colour process" from an old Kodak manual. Eaton is so freaking cool. I'd consider her a scientific photographer for sure and it all came about by experimenting and taking risks.