Practice
Chemical Journal
Material and chemical tests related to the Burials process, carried out together with Alejandra Moffat.
- Preliminary Chemical Test
We left a strip of film in a bucket full of household cleaning chemicals overnight (bleach, etc.). By morning the emulsion had completely vanished except for the areas that were floating on the…
- Chemical Test 1
June 2012: film strips left indefinitely in household substances (lemon, salt water, vinegar, alcohol, rust, bleach) to watch them decay.
- Chemical Test 2
July 2012: second round, with film strips left in jars of charcoal water, Coca-Cola, yeast and sugar, rotten wood, bleach and window cleaner.
- Chemical Test – Results 1
First round of results: we examined each strip of film for the first time since June 22nd.
- Chemical Test 3
July 2012: third round, a film strip left in rotten rice with fungus growing on it.
- Chemical Test – Results 2
Second round of results: we examined each strip of film for the first time since July 5th.
- Chemical Test – Results 3
Third round of results: we examined each strip of film for the first time since July 25th.
- Chemical Test – Results 4
Fourth round of results: we examined each strip of film for the first time since October 18th 2012.