Openings Connecting: MEANWHILE, DIS-CO continued @ HOME

Saturday, May 23, 2009

MEANWHILE, DIS-CO continued @ HOME

just before leaving for the outer banks,
i tore a piece of rice paper off a roll,
touched it with a few sepia ink marks, added
a photo of MY mountain
and laid it between my square basket of
rocks and the round iron top of the pedestal.

that's where my favorite marks came from via the
disintegration project, and look what happened
in just ten days time!!

my new business op!! any orders for Dis-c0 MONOPRINTS!!

3 comments:

Leslie Avon MillerMay 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Everything is looking just fabulous over here! Disintegration, photos, textures - all of it!
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Caterina GiglioMay 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Welcome back! your pix are outstanding! Thanks for taking me to the beach I could smell the salt air! Love your rice paper piece too!
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SethMay 24, 2009 at 7:29 AM
This is looking spectacular! Disintegration as creation! You may not even need to create something for August 1. Just post these!!
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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.