These images are from a cold February, 2024, in The Field NCAD. I decided to use Three Cornered Leek, one of my first experiments into ‘nuisance’ plants in great abundance. Three Cornered Leek is a delicious strong garlic tasting plant the looks akin to Bluebells but with white flowers, angular flat sided stems and a pungent scent when crushed. All parts are edible and the flowers are pretty, but it has a reputation to colonise. It can be seen in vast swathes wherever it establishes itself. When I found it growing in local clusters in The Field I thought that finding uses for it beyond eating was the best form of management. The negatives were quite dense and stained, which I could attribute to overboiling or incorrect developing times, but I feel that there are other elements at play unique to alliums, whether its a less stable phenol or some other bio availability reason that I’m yet to learn. I’ll test other extraction methods and retry. With a little edit it gave a beautiful result, and I tested two images in the darkroom which printed much nicer than expected for dense negs.
