lumen series: lady fern

5.6 inch by 4.3 inch blank notecard on premium matte recycled card stock. Featuring a scan of a unique lumen of a lady fern frond, exposed using the Philadelphia sunshine.

Lumens are an alternative cameraless photographic process involving exposing photo paper to UV light. This process is ephemeral, as the print starts fading immediately, and the image can only be saved with digital scanning or taking a photo of the lumen. “Fixing” the image with Kodafix bleaches the image.