Openings Connecting: INSPIRATION WALL~~SHELF~~ARTIFACTS (response to invitation to share inspiration boards from 'altered page')

Monday, June 8, 2009

INSPIRATION WALLSHELFARTIFACTS (response to invitation to share inspiration boards from 'altered page')

MY INSPIRATION THINGS,
wings, strings,
and even beans.

pods and rods,
clay and hay.
rocks that i've "rapt"
and carried away.

and framed works
from friends
making the wall
that never ends.

5 comments:

SethJune 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM
This is an inspiration board come to life! Such wonderful treasures that must really provide you unending inspiration. Liked the poem in the post too!
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nancy neva gaglianoJune 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
thanks....the poem is a little dr. seuss-ish, don't you think? part of my 'heritage'....grin.
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Kim PalmerJune 9, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Love that this is a more permanent display, or at least just well presented:) You have some items that remind me of someone close to me(who is no longer with us) it was an unexpected but lovely suprise! Love the little wooden bits and pieces. Thanks for sharing.
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rivergardenstudioJune 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Your wall and shelves are wonderful, I especially love the painting behind the little Buddha... Roxanne
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nancy neva gaglianoJune 10, 2009 at 4:55 PM
that's GOOD to hear...it's a painting i did.....another HUMBLE OFFERING....
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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.