| I went to visit a huge cave, there is a river inside this cave, so I shot a film and soaked it in this water. Also I found some oil from a candle in the water, and I added it too. All this stuff just soaked in a plastic container with film for a couple of weeks. One day I brought the film to lab in Chiang Mai, but they told me it wasn't possible to develop this film, and they wanted to put it in a trash can! But I saved it and sent it to Moscow to my friend in a lab, who developed it by hand and sent me the scans. The cave is some kind of a natural attraction, and I really enjoy the many things you can explore there. The walls look like they are alive. If you compare the cave to the human body, it feels like you are inside of some organ of human body! Textures of walls, stalactites and stalagmites are good models because they are very abstract, and it looks like some sort of natural painting or sculpture. So my camera is just a frame for this beauty, and soaking film in a water from cave and oil from a lamp that gave us light inside is like mixing colors in palette. |











