Working with a studio sensibility that occasionally explores a balance of the immediate, subjective qualities of drawing with the “objective”, alchemical qualities of photography, I chose to contact print a collection of used tarps as an experiment in camera-less image making. I found and purchased used tarps for their aesthetic beauty and because they seemed emblematic of the everyday; common, non-descript, connotative of labor. I had imagined that camera-less images would be like x-rays and indisputably precise - accurate records of their subject. But rather than clarifying any information about the tarps themselves, the resulting images appear to be black and white pictures of earth from outer space (reminiscent of bit-map satellite imagery replete with urban grids, coast lines, and weather systems) and at times images of constellations or the aurora borealis in the night sky.