Openings Connecting: DROPLETS, MORNING WALK

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

DROPLETS, MORNING WALK

7 comments:

SethSeptember 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Nice theme and such beautiful, serene images.
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BeaSeptember 30, 2009 at 8:04 AM
I love these kinds of photos. You have to be in the right place at the right time to catch them. Just beautiful. For some reason my blog icons weren't updating that you had posted something. When I'm pressed for time I usually check those. Well, they failed me. Now, I'm going to read back a few days since I missed those posts!! :)Bea
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Blue Sky DreamingSeptember 30, 2009 at 9:39 AM
You had my full attention with the first photo...so wonderful to catch the moment! The red, the green and the drops! WOW
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Caterina GiglioSeptember 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Neva these are just gorgeous! I wanna take photog class from YOU!!! Mwah!!!
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layersSeptember 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
You take very good photos and to carry the theme of the dew or rain droplets-- wonderful.
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ELKOctober 1, 2009 at 6:54 PM
thank you for sharing your walks...i feel the cool air
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Renee HowellOctober 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM
oh my oh my
love it
love it
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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.