During her time at graduate school Rosie Clements was lucky enough to have access to a small Roland UV printer in her university’s print lab. A nifty device that she quickly became familiar with for her many outlandish material experiments, this printer changed her image-making process entirely. “I printed photographs on every surface I could find, including popcorn ceiling tiles, fake fur and rocks,” the photographer says. “Many of these attempts failed — the images were either entirely illegible or, at times, overly sharp.”
However, one afternoon the photographer “stumbled across a sheet of bubble wrap on the sidewalk” and decided to give it a whirl. “The results thrilled me”, she says, “the bubbles reminded me of squishy, tactile pixels, and the application added a new dimensionality to the image.” This relationship between image and material has captivated Rosie ever since, informing her latest series of photo prints on bubble wrap, Pure Semblance.