Corrosion Theory

Corrosion Theory began with a discarded wristwatch — an object most people would consider past its usefulness. Shot at extreme macro, its inner mechanism becomes unrecognizable: a monumental landscape of oxidized brass, flaking pigment, and steel-blue gears whose surfaces have been slowly rewritten by time.

The title holds the tension at the heart of the work. Corrosion is typically understood as loss. But here it is also testimony — a physical record written onto the very instrument built to measure time's passage. The watch stopped working. Time did not.

Part of the series What Time Leaves Behind, this photograph explores how objects continue to hold memory long after their original purpose disappears. When function fades, what remains is often the most revealing.

Custom framed archival pigment print on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper.