Elizabeth Brooke was the McEngel Artist in Residence at the Harvey Warner Institute this past fall, where she conducted research on the artistic possibilities of lens-based interactive sculpture and the use fluid ambrotypes and albumen prints in non-musuem spaces. Her fascination with experimental aesthetics is derived from her early childhood experiences with the large scale constructivist pieces housed in her family’s garage, and from a transformative visit to the Acton Photograph Archive at Villa La Pietra. Her works seeks to answer questions about the phonetic nature of photography (following the Coburn definition of abstraction) and explores themes of the visible versus the non-visible, often through the use of the Strindberg method of saline injection on hot and cold photographic plates. Elizabeth hopes to receive funding this coming spring for an inquiry on the effect of thought vibrations on expired film.