typescript report. someone (almost certainly a woman) was sitting at a desk in a police office in 1971 that you've seen in movies or on tv a dozen times, pounding away on typewriter keys to impress these black-inked characters on a blank piece of white paper.
this is an image of text, more accurately an image of a newspaper clipping from the 19th century. for me it raises interesting questions of how differences in the imaging of texts can make a difference: a newspaper clipping, the front page of a typescript report, a screenshot of text, etc.
the genre is chromatography, but of a particular kind. the material process here is actually quite interesting, and is actually much more a kind of photograph than it is akin to other kinds of chromatography; the paper is treated with silver nitrate, as photographic paper is: https://www.milkwood.net/2011/11/06/soil-chromatography-with-eugenio-gras/
but that said I also read this as a kind of mandala, or similar sort of image meant to elicit or focus meditative attention