Fanny Hellgren
Burning Nebula (Sand Drawing)
Burning Nebula (Sand Drawing) results from a process I've been working with since 2020. On sunny summer days, I pour sand and water on aquarelle papers and spray on a mixture of pigment, graphite powder, and water. When the sun has evaporated the water, I brush away the sand. The graphite and pigment remain on the paper, plotting out the traces of the sand. These drawings are nature studies, but not portraits of nature in the conventional sense. Instead, I let the natural materials depict themselves, while the paper takes the role of the site where the lives of the materials are brought into view.
