“Ocotillo, Chihuahuan Desert.” The artwork is a whole-plate (6.5” x 8.5”) wet collodion on glass (negative).
I’ve started working on my SDS and Glass Bones. I made this negative today in the desert near my house. It comes from the place where rupture enters experience and refuses to remain abstract.
In the desert, beauty and threat are inseparable. The spines of the ocotillo catch the midday sun until they appear almost skeletal, held in that narrow space where form emerges under pressure.
The collodion plate becomes a vessel for that exposure. What remains on the glass is not just a picture of a plant but a trace of light, time, and the awareness that everything we see is already passing.
New Mexico, March 24, 2026, copyright Quinn Jacobson