Openings Connecting: OMG..."things are falling apart"

Sunday, March 1, 2009

OMG..."things are falling apart"

Falling apart? no......just "disintegrating"....om.

(right photo taken one week earlier than the left, the effects of some serious rain & wind!)

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~*~Patty SMarch 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM
how great this looks wrapped around the tree!
inspires me to want to make more bundles and set them free outside!
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nancy neva gaglianoMarch 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM
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Mrs PretzelMay 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I LOVE the way you've secured your bundle!! This is going to be AMAZING!!
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nancy neva gaglianoMay 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM
it's a big ole tree....the bundle's facing south so that the winter sun? when we have it will hit it....this held through 50 mph winds, too.....i've left the ribbon with the coin and key dangling and will have to add a new bundle sometime soon...just slide it in! thanks!
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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.