Openings Connecting: JOURNALING

Sunday, May 24, 2009

JOURNALING

WATER
INK
WAX
CLIP
TIME

3 comments:

Caterina GiglioMay 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM
love the wax. keep playing with it, encaustic is so romantic...
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Jill ZaheerMay 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
This is my first visit to your blog- but not my last! Just love rainbows! They're always my favorite and I see a rainbow in your third journal page. Thanks so much for leaving a comment on my blog- I'm very appreciative!
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Renee HowellMay 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Love the green dots - wonderful addition.
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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.