Hahmajärvi

In Arteles, I walked and photographed around the lake for a month in December, in the snow and cold. Hahmajärvi is the name of this lake. The oblique Finnish light outlines the landscape in delicate ratios and shades of grey typical of these latitudes. I chose to capture my contemplation through a video process created from six silver photographic images. "Hahmajärvi" stretches over a long period of time (10 minutes) and captures the imperceptible transformations of the landscape. Although the prevailing feeling is one of fixity, the visual journey is permanent. It's a large, fluid drawing that unfolds in a slow economy. Through this digital work, a history of the relationship between the fixed image, the image on film, and the animated, digital image is written. Indeed, many layers and interventions in the photographic process have disrupted and modified the nature of the initial image. From the crudest scanning to the recoloring of the negative in cyanotype-like hues, the film, which regains its continuous advancement as in the camera's darkroom, retains in its digital form the memory of this tossing and turning of the photographic image. It thus echoes the tormented movement of the history of photographic processes.