The drone ecology is part of everyone's lives in Ukraine. We hear them flying overhead, and the explosions when they land. Postcode Ukraine, and many of the charities it gives grants to, offer direct support to Ukrainians living on the very frontline where drone strikes are quotidian and ubiquitous. There one can find the carcasses of drones that have crashed or been shot down. Nowhere more do they resemble large dead insects than when you see them with missing limbs, burnt thorax, or disemboweled abdomens.

Picturing drones conventionally with cameras and lenses seems to make them benign, neutralizing them to advances in modern technology to be admired, rather than the zoomorphic predators that feature regularly in my dreams and nightmares. We are already immune in the West to feeling anything about the tsunami of conventional war images pouring out of Ukraine every second.

Instead, I started making photograms of these drone carcasses. A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper or film and then exposing it to a light source. This creates a negative silhouette showing white or grey shapes where the light was blocked.

Every month, in my blacked out studio, I arrange on large sheets of light-sensitive paper these carcasses alongside those of other dead insects from a personal collection I started when war began, of butterflies and moths. In the future I predict that drones will be captured, killed and preserved with the same care demonstrated by a butterfly collector.

I then photograph these unique photograms in order to make an edition of five that replicates the photo paper, tonalities, and exact dimensions of the original. The original photogram becomes the artist proof.

- Mark Neville