Blood of my blood is a multi-faceted project that investigates the link between personal narratives and scientific advancement through a photographic lens. This new body of work highlights the shared histories of photography and medicine through the nineteenth-century wet collodion process. At the core of the project lies the artist’s response to her mother’s cancer journey. An eye surgeon undergoing treatment, forms the intimate ground on which the artist examines chemical parallels that run throughout. Ether-both early anesthetic and collodion solvent, silver nitrate-an-tiseptic and key light sensitive components of her processes—link the darkroom to the clinic. The artist mirrors medical ways of seeing: dissecting, diagnosing, repairing. Across plates and prints, she isolates “parts”—eyes, hands, scars, bones—treating them anatomically. The installations sit between the operating theatre and darkroom, bringing together surgical and photographic instruments. Applying a camera-less form of experimental pho- tography to capture their embracing bodies, the art- ist expresses shared vulnerability while echoing the effects of chemotherapy with the marks and trac- es left on the resulting image. For a series of wet collodion portraits captured on glass, and limbs on surgery-grade steel, artist allows the unvarnished surfaces to decompose, and tarnish, through the process of mordançage, repairing deliberate frac- tured glass with kintsugi-like seams and recycled sil- ver. Still lifes of plague doctor masks provide a link to the healing herbs and practices within her family, From one family’s experience, Blood of My Blood opens onto wider histories of invention. Project is presented below at the site of The Old Operating Theatre-space where the surgeries were once performed on women without anaesthetics or antiseptics, in front of a live audience of predominantly male medical students.