Lou Hazelwood
Lou Hazelwood is a Hull based artist; she has a diverse practice, which sees her investigate how our experiences, personal and cultural, and technologies, historical and contemporary, influence our experience of memory and forgetfulness. Her work takes many forms and responses from sound pieces, text, film, installation, performance and image based. Over the last decade she has been exploring damaged film stock and photographic emulsion, working with a variety of processes to see how film responds. She manipulates the stability of the emulsion and what it ultimately records. Lou worked with household chemicals, considering the domestic family image and recently with woodlands chemicals, embedding permanence in responses to ecological change referencing temporary images produced via the historical process of ‘anthotypes’.
Lou Hazelwood
Lou Hazelwood is a Hull based artist; she has a diverse practice, which sees her investigate how our experiences, personal and cultural, and technologies, historical and contemporary, influence our experience of memory and forgetfulness. Her work takes many forms and responses from sound pieces, text, film, installation, performance and image based. Over the last decade she has been exploring damaged film stock and photographic emulsion, working with a variety of processes to see how film responds. She manipulates the stability of the emulsion and what it ultimately records. Lou worked with household chemicals, considering the domestic family image and recently with woodlands chemicals, embedding permanence in responses to ecological change referencing temporary images produced via the historical process of ‘anthotypes’.
The Circle is Not
Photographic print
100cm x 100cm
‘The Circle is Not’ is a time-led photographic experiment exploring ecological change. Gridded segments of film, each altered by natural chemicals for varying durations, reflect the evolving relationship between process, material, and concept. Hazelwood used expired 35mm colour film with natural redactions in the emulsion, she then altered it further using naturally foraged chemicals from East Yorkshire woodlands to disrupt its stability.
The Circle is Not an aperture closing and recording time. The Circle is Not a mimic of time, suggesting growth in a petri dish or the anchor of a clock containing time. The Circle is Not wholly circular.
‘The Circle is Not’ is determined by the time the preparations of woodland chemicals are left on the film, the time of exposure to light and some images also include voids (where there is no time but pure energy), created by punching holes through the film randomly
in the dark.
