Openings Connecting: DISINTEGRATION Artists do worthwhile things and "don't catch hell":Tree Bundle

Friday, May 1, 2009

DISINTEGRATION Artists do worthwhile things and "don't catch hell":Tree Bundle

On our tree in February, "PERSPECTIVES OF PLACE",
Tri-fold newspaper, gessoed, with
watercolor images concealed
and revealed when opened on
May Day

6 comments:

Ginny GaskillMay 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I like the colors. Did they change much from the beinning?
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nancy neva gaglianoMay 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM
you know, the colors didn't change nearly as much as i'd expected. water colors....and the exterior orb seems to have changed even less than the interior arch.
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femminismoMay 2, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I adore the quote from Earl Warren. haha! Eisenhower was quoted as saying appointing him (Warren) to the Supreme Court was the worst mistake he ever made. My Disintegration Project was fun. You have lovely handwriting! - Jeanne in Oregon
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nancy neva gaglianoMay 3, 2009 at 6:30 AM
femminismo: who knew earl warren would end up on a YOGI tea bag??!! life is so wonderful!!
and so is your blog. it just wouldn't let me leave a comment this morning.
i'll try later
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Mary Helen-Art Saves LivesMay 15, 2009 at 7:39 PM
You have and show a gentle spirit in your sacred mark making. Continue your walk in the renewing sunshine as we all renew and integrate a new mark making journey. Imagine and Live in Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
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Fran MeneleyMay 16, 2009 at 5:36 AM
Hi Neva! Love that you nailed yours to the tree! Looking lovely and softened, not to disintegrated by weathered - kind of like us! Can't wait to see what you transform this into. xo fran
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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.