Openings Connecting: and then there was CHOCOLATE

Saturday, September 26, 2009

and then there was CHOCOLATE

AND THEN
there were handmade dark chocolate truffles
and apple pie

and a long drive home.

my renewed love of the great outdoors
supporting all just causes..
the spirit, beauty, and delicious detours.

6 comments:

layersSeptember 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM
how do you choose between chocolate truffles and apple pie? too mouthwatering good looking to choose.. oh dear what a quandary.
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Caterina GiglioSeptember 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM
put the coffe on! I will be right over!!! LOL! I wish!!! someday!!!
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LawendulaSeptember 26, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Ah, don't do this to me! *running over to the kitchen*
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Blue Sky DreamingSeptember 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM
This was one perfect day...combining friendship, chocolate and apple pie...I bet you floated on that long drive home!
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ELKSeptember 28, 2009 at 4:38 AM
what could be better than this ...triple wonders!
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BeaSeptember 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Oh YUMMMMMMMMMMMM those look delicious. :)Bea
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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.