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Cassidy C. Cole

  1. Signals from a Solar Well
  2. Sacrifice Zone
  3. Inheritance Paradox
  4. Plants that Persist
  5. Radiation Pile
  6. Beach Closed
  7. Archive
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©2025 Cassidy C. Cole

Inherited Paradox


Hand-enlarged C-Prints from 35mm, 20x24in, 2025


 

This is part of an ongoing collaboration.



I’m interested in how artists might collaborate with the non-human. Land holds memory, it carries histories, stories, and remains constant even as it’s altered. How might it be already speaking to us? I wanted to witness a particular site in the Permian Basin, a place marked by over a century of extraction. I chose film because it demands a kind of presence that digital photography cannot. I hoped that, through each image, the land might guide me… might speak.

I approach this work with the awareness that my relationship to this land is shaped by inherited structures – legacies of ownership, extraction, and silence. I don’t pretend to speak for the land, but I hope to be shaped by it. To listen. To allow space for a different kind of exchange.

What I didn’t expect was how the land would continue to collaborate throughout the development process.





These images emerged from a process that has become central to how I work with film. I hand-enlarge 35mm negatives in an attempt to bring the same kind of tactile materiality I seek in painting into photography. After enlarging, each print is rolled and moved from the darkroom to the processor through a tube. During that transfer, light begins to fog the paper. Because of the way it’s rolled, a line of exposure often runs down the center. The shifts in color come from that same slow, partial exposure to light.