In the Venus series, developer, stop bath and fixer act as a means of suspending time. The images derive from a poem I wrote about discovering that a day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus. Working directly on B&W photographic paper, chemigrams emerge, and in their creation they are nothing more than intuitive and fleeting gestures that trigger chemical reactions: the dipping of photographic paper into chemicals, the turning and twisting, and the rinsing with water. I thought of Venus as not only a celestial body, but also the planet we associate with an intense and time-defying emotion: love, which follows a similar logic to the planet’s time. The series is a visual diary that attempts to capture the personal and the particular that coexist within the multiple temporalities of an infinite cosmos.