{"product_id":"1-1-nat-faulkner","title":"1:1 - Nat Faulkner","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of Nat Faulkner’s exhibition Strong water at Camden Art Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA direct product of the artist’s studio,\u003cem\u003e 1:1\u003c\/em\u003e is a publication that sits in dialogue with the exhibition’s core themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1:1\u003c\/em\u003e presents an extensive series of hand-produced contact prints by the artist, derived from a single large format image taken by Faulkner of a peppered moth (Biston betularia) – a widely studied example of ‘industrial melanism’. During the Industrial Revolution soot from factories darkened the bark of trees and through a process of natural selection the lighter form of this moth, once well-camouflaged, became more visible to predators and its numbers diminished. Meanwhile, a darker (melanic) variant became more common, due to being better camouflaged against the soot darkened trees. This phenomena, the artist has observed, holds resonances with the processes of photography itself – in the production of positive and negative images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the pages of this publication, the image of the moth both alternates between its positive and negative versions and gradually progresses from a sharp detailed image towards abstraction as the original image ‘degrades’ with each repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication also includes two essays, from Gloria Hasnay (Director of Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf) and artist Sean Steadman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by George Haughton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCamden Arts Centre \u0026amp; Brunette Coleman, 2026 \u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 197pp \u003cbr\u003e305 x 245mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56992477938041,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-15_2da4886b-1442-4231-a9ac-318a7439c7d4.jpg?v=1775650416","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/1-1-nat-faulkner","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}