Guest [PS], 25,000 Solar images, 3:13 PM, 19 November, 1993

Unique dye destruction photogram print. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on mount verso.

Christopher Bucklow’s “Guest” series, which began in 1993, features radiant silhouettes of human figures created using a unique photogram technique. Bucklow crafts large pinhole cameras with up to 25,000 tiny apertures, traces the shadow-silhouette of his models onto aluminum foil, and exposes photosensitive paper to sunlight through these punctures. The resulting images consist of thousands of miniature suns forming a luminous human shape. The use of 25,000 pinholes symbolizes a lifespan of seventy years, with each sun representing a day. His work delves into themes of existence, consciousness, and the relationship between the tangible and symbolic, influenced by ideas like neoteny and cultural evolution.