Openings Connecting: GOODNIGHT, disintegrated Moon

Friday, May 1, 2009

GOODNIGHT, disintegrated Moon

"With all your science
can you tell how it is, and
whence it is, that LIGHT
COMES INTO THE SOUL?"

5 comments:

JudyMay 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM
It will be fun to see what you d with your papers and thanks for such a wonderful resonse to my post.
xo
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~*~Patty SMay 2, 2009 at 12:57 PM
SO many wonderful disintegration posts, Love your choice of quotes and wisdom AND your bundle is really grand!!!
August should be very exciting with 123 DisCo artwork overflowing :)
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femminismoMay 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM
I wish I had put rusty things with my papers! -Jeanne
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Mr LeeMay 2, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Thank you for your enjoying our blog.You are welcome any time.Your blog always give us a good feeling.
Bless our friend!
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Supria KarmakarMay 3, 2009 at 5:24 AM
Love your words..they are full of soul/spirit and love...thanks..Supria
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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.