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2 unusual facts about Susan Derges


Susan Derges

From 1986 to 1991 Derges lived in London, moving to Dartmoor, Devon in 1992.

Her 1985 work Chladni Figures was produced by sprinkling carborundum powder directly onto photographic emulsion where it was exposed to sound waves at different frequencies (see Ernst Chladni), creating ghostly black and white images of natural order and chaos.



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