Openings Connecting: HAIKU X'S 2

Sunday, September 27, 2009

HAIKU X'S 2

night held the soil's warmth
as it rolled in its chill...
the morning's ground cloud
a soft, cool embrace
muffled my senses to its departure
like early life's loves.

8 comments:

Tess KincaidSeptember 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I adore the morning autumn fog that rolls across our property from the river bed. Beautiful post.
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SethSeptember 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Such beautiful words and the images are just stunning!!
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Renee HowellSeptember 27, 2009 at 2:08 PM
michigan's mystic memories

on another subject: the word verification is

netha

close but far away by alphabet standards

me :-)
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Caterina GiglioSeptember 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM
this is such a fabulous post Neva, I love your words and the photos are such a perfect match! xo
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ELKSeptember 28, 2009 at 4:37 AM
neva i really appreciate your images and poetry today
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UnknownSeptember 28, 2009 at 9:22 AM
beautiful joining of the natural world and human life - only quiet words could do it
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Kelly M.September 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM
I love the subdued shading of these photos -- they truly mirror the essence of your words!
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Rosaria WilliamsSeptember 30, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Love these pictures! I came in from Willow's.
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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.