Shadow Portraits, 2023 and
Sol Drawings, 2023

Copper has perhaps a longer history than most realize. Most metals on Earth have an extra-terrestrial origin and astronomers now believe that much of the copper on Earth was forged in very massive stars. Four and a half billion years ago, Earth inherited some of this copper. Shadow Portraits and Sol Drawings offer a counterpoint to the film One Hundred Thousand Suns, which is thick with history, research, and time.

Drawing from images taken during eclipse chases over the past ten years, the parts of Shadow Portraits are intimate portraits of eclipses past and those yet to come, rendered in copper and fumage or the impressions made by candle smoke. The Sol Drawings looks more closely and deeply. Inspired by images of sunspots and other solar phenomena, Devasher transforms the surface of these paper-thin copper sheets through interventions like acid washing, embossing, and fumage