Openings Connecting: ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION

Thursday, March 5, 2009

ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION

It IS about NOTICINGS. Taking time and processing.
And so it is when we connect in deliberate ways.
At least once a week, I'm on Parkview Ave driving through some of the rare green space surviving in our city limits to my favorite market. This Arched Vine would catch me as I focused on the often slippery, icy road, and I'd think about bringing my camera back .... finally did on Monday, snow evaporated, a cold but sunny day, and the arch's arms seemed to be flailing about~~greeting me. I'll return to it often, catching its active ReIntegration. .

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A GranddaughterMarch 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM
That is beautiful... reminds me of our old pal Andy Goldsworthy... thanks for sharing your blog with me. xoxo
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nancy neva gaglianoMarch 6, 2009 at 6:01 AM
yes, when we wanted to be "goldworthy roadies"!!
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Fran MeneleyMarch 6, 2009 at 7:43 AM
I love these two juxtaposed next to each other. This whole disintegration thing has me thinking and noticing too! Love this! Those gnarly vines are beautiful. xo frannie
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SethMarch 10, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Wow. This is yet one more example of the beauty and art of nature! Glad you stopped for the photo.
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ArtPropelledMay 2, 2009 at 6:16 AM
Love this image!
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FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.