Openings Connecting: I'VE GOT THE BLUES

Monday, August 3, 2009

I'VE GOT THE BLUES

I'VE GOT THE BLUES, missing TAOS,
as i usually do when i'm supposed to be settling back into home life in michigan.
Happens everytime. my affair with the mountain, been going on for over fourty years after living there way back then, and continues since i manage to make my way back most summers for at least a short time. sometimes i say i'm never going back. can't handle the reentry. stopped saying i'll live there. like an affair, it's always sweeter when not so available...or so i've heard. hmmmmmm. grass greener. who needs green?

4 comments:

Caterina GiglioAugust 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM
YES!! it IS like an affair! I never thought of it that way, but you are right. that makes me feel so much better. but it is a charming muse! xo cat
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LawendulaAugust 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM
But having the blues leads to this wonderful composition of blue pics, such beauties...
Take care!
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ooglebloopsAugust 10, 2009 at 4:44 AM
I know how you feel - when a place has your heart - it's hard to leave, and sometimes hard to go back, when you know you can't stay.......
Thanks for following me - and your very kind comments!!!! I love your art - and your DisCo reveal is absolutely WONDER-full!!!!!!
I am a follower now!!
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PeregrineBlueNovember 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM
love how you see the world
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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.