Jessica Frances

A meditation on repetition, erosion, and the inevitable collapse of the image.

In Chemical Ghosts, Jessica Frances explores the illusion of photographic stability through deliberate degradation. A single image, banal in its origin, is repeated, then chemically altered beyond recognition. Each frame becomes a unique artefact of destruction, resisting the uniformity of reproduction and embracing the entropy of time, touch, and process.

This work interrogates the idea of permanence in analogue photography, blurring the boundary between documentation and disintegration. What begins as repetition becomes rupture. The image collapses, but something stranger, more visceral, is left behind.