Derges's photograms from the Chladni Figures series immortalise the quivering particles that shuffled inexorably into the ridges of wave-forms, in which each.!
Susan Derges began experimenting with camera-less photograph when she was living in Japan and her 2985 work 'Chladni Figures was created by.
Susan Derges is a photographic artist who specialising in camera-less photographic processes and mostly works with natural landscapes. She expressed an early interest in abstraction after being trained in painting as “it offered the promise of being able to speak of the invisible rather than to record the visible”.
She started to use camera-less photography after being frustrated with the way “the camera always separates the subject from the viewer”.
Susan Derges began experimenting with camera-less photograph when she was living in Japan and her 2985 work ‘Chladni Figures was created by sprinkling carborundum powder directly onto photographic emulsion where it was exposed to different frequencies of sound waves which created ghostly black and white images of natural order and chaos.
In response to this photograph Susan Derges said in The Guardian newspaper
“This picture came out of spending a long time in a field in Dartmoor national park.