2010 - 2016 | Digital Photography | Archival pigment prints, 18” x 20” | Limited Edition of 20 Prints | Color | Lookout, West Virginia
A durational series of photographs documenting the artist’s homicide investigator father's fingerprints and trace evidence (ie, hair, blood, skin cells, etc) on objects and materials lifted from the family home, his personal forensic science lab, and his various objects. The artist gathered and and archived this evidence after his unexpected death in fall of 2010.

The glowing yellow of some fingerprints is fluorescing caused by a cyanoacrylate (superglue) fuming evidence gathering method that the artist’s father invented and that the artist helped patent. These vaporized chemicals adhese to lipids and water-soluble materials left behind by skin contacting a surface (ie, fingerprints). Once the fumes have dissipated, the result is a permanent, indelible version of the fingerprint that, when illuminated under UV light between 440 and 470 nm, glows a shocking, brilliant, ember-like gold, visible from over 100ft away.