Garry Fabian Miller
'Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty-four Days of Sunlight, May 2004'
2004
Dye destruction prints
Height 162 cm x width 162 cm x depth 5 cm
Museum no. E.529-2005
© Courtesy of the artist/V&A Images

In photography as in photosynthesis, light plays a fundamental role in creation. This work was made using beech leaves gathered from late April to early June in the artist's garden on Dartmoor. Each vertical line was printed on one day, with the time period increasing incrementally from one day between the first lines to around two weeks in the later stages.