Unique gelatin silver photogram of rain.
Rain Studies is a series of unique gelatin silver photograms made at night using photographic paper and hand-held light sources. This work, which attempts to make visible a tactile sensation, began on the Big Island in Hawaii, where rain is plentiful, and continued in Northern California. During these years California sank into a severe draught and weather tracking became part of the artist’s practice. McKenna’s constant anticipation of rain and the act of documenting it on the rare occasions that it came, became her own form of prayer.
