Openings Connecting: TREASURE HUNT

Sunday, August 30, 2009

TREASURE HUNT

A LONG TIME AGO
i'd take time for hunting treasures.
ONCE IN AWHILE
i find myself just making a stop or
two in an antique or resale shop/market...
especially when i travel.
BUT RIGHT HERE,
close to home, i found these little treasures.
Not expensive at all.
HERON, the two inch round painted rock, signed on the back.
And the 2 inch square glass slides in metal frames...
rose colored cliffs at water's edge,
the blossoming fruit tree in a backyard,
and the classic mountains/reflections mirrored on water.

6 comments:

UnknownAugust 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM
treasures indeed
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BeaAugust 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Ooooooooh what wonderful little treasures. :)Bea
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Caterina GiglioAugust 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM
I wanna go shopping with YOU!!!
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Lucky Dip LisaAugust 31, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Arn't you glad you stopped by that shop when you did? these are lovely treasures! I especially like the bird (no suprises there!) and the blossoming tree. Awesome scores!
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ELKSeptember 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM
so very unusual ...and what a treat t0 find!
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Tess KincaidSeptember 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Oooo, the thrill of the hunt! Love your finds.
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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.