Chemigrams were invented in the 1950s by Belgian artist Pierre Cordier. His first inspiration was from a note he wrote dedicated to a German girl, Erika with nail varnish on photographic paper. The process includes placing something in front of the photo paper to block the light, leaving the parts that where exposed to light go black and where ever the light was unable to reach the white paper, remaining white and untouched.
These where my first attempts of chemigrams using washing liquids, dyes, food substances such as jams and honey, nail varnish and paint. these where done in a room eliminated by natural lighting which affected the process of my images. a few of them came out overdeveloped and was pure black. I experimented by using the finishing liquid before the processor, which caused the opposite to happen where the background was white and the substances on the front where black.