Openings Connecting

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

the back of the front cover

6 comments:

Nikki Lee Anne GhilainAugust 1, 2009 at 8:39 AM
I love it! Rusty papers yummmmm! Thank you for stopping by.
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Karin BartimoleAugust 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Beautiful textures and subtlety of rusts and natures touch! I love the embedded elements - great work!
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UnknownAugust 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Very nice...love the textures and colors of your book.
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BTAugust 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM
This is fabulous and what a great idea to make a book. I love it.
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MickAugust 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Beautifully done and inspirational.
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rivergardenstudioAugust 18, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Oh, these are so beautiful, weathered and soft, grainy with every shade of brown. I especially love the pocket and the torn edges... I have been here before, but lost touch somehow. Now I have you bookmarked! So much creativity on your blog... Roxanne
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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.