Openings Connecting: busy at the beach markings, playful alterations

Saturday, May 23, 2009

busy at the beach markings, playful alterations

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SethMay 24, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Wow that last picture is fantastic. Must have been so sool in person.
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nancy neva gaglianoMay 24, 2009 at 6:27 PM
MY ARCH is following me...WHAT WOULD JUNG SAY?
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ArtPropelledMay 26, 2009 at 12:32 AM
I don't know about Jung but I would say, new opportunities opening to you (of which you are already aware...perhaps). What do you think?
I have so enjoyed all your beach photographs. I'm in love with the driftwood arch.
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nancy neva gaglianoMay 26, 2009 at 4:59 AM
after seeing so much of your work and work featured on your blog, i can see the driftwood arch's appeal to you. it was huge, and high, at the top of the steps going down to the beach.
i need to go out and photograph MY winter arch again here in kalamazoo. . .it's all glowing with many green leaves. will do that soon. and you're right. i'm aware....of the OPENINGS, connecting. . .
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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.