MICRO LENS SERIES

Through macro photography, Caroline Christie-Coxon isolates minute events within process-led paint studies. Gravity, viscosity, chemical interaction, evaporation and flow participate in forming the images, continuing the material enquiry first developed through Processing Paint.

Magnification shifts these fragments beyond their original scale. Painterly events may appear biological, geological, atmospheric or cosmic, moving between the microscopic and the expansive without settling into a single reading. The familiar becomes uncertain, while distinctions between abstraction, landscape and material process begin to dissolve.

The Micro Lens Series reflects Christie-Coxon’s broader understanding that knowledge can emerge through sustained observation. Rather than using paint to illustrate a predetermined idea, the works reveal structures and associations encountered through making and looking. Photography becomes a second act of attention: a means of witnessing processes already unfolding within the material.

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