Openings Connecting: TAOS TIME: bon voyage

Monday, September 7, 2009

TAOS TIME: bon voyage

bon voyage to LA DOLCE VITA (click on her blog in my sidebar to see her paintings of the SAN FRANCISCO DE ASSIS church in ranchos de taos),
caterina giglio, journeying back to our shared mountain muse!
i appreciate your thoughts of me that you shared ~~~PEACE.
more now than then.
perhaps.

1. a little crescent moon behind the chile ristra,
2. july at the church
3. dorothy brett's church at taos pueblo
4. ernest blumenschein's chuch in ranchos

7 comments:

BeaSeptember 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Nancy for some reason your sidebar did not show for me. I've been having a problem with Blogger lately, it could be my access.
Anyway, the photo and the paintings were just beautiful. Thank you for sharing them. :)Bea
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Caterina GiglioSeptember 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Thank you my friend! I intend to leave a note of things to let go of with Zozobra who will be burned on thursday, I will be in Taos fortunately and will not hear his screams and moans! cannot wait to see our shared muse! ciao bella!
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nancy neva gaglianoSeptember 8, 2009 at 5:16 AM
the side bar disappeared when i posted these.....can't figure it out......maybe there'll be magical intervention.
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LawendulaSeptember 8, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Yes, I will miss Cta during the time, when she's away.
Blumenschein is a great name, the translation would be: "Flowershine"- isn't that great? I love the colors in the two paintings.
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Renee HowellSeptember 8, 2009 at 5:21 PM
... breathing in Taos ...

While I cook (bake I guess) frozen fish things (Gordon's), baked sweet potato fries, microwaved frozen peas.

the math on these three things is hard - 24 minutes, 20 minutes, turn half way, this side up...

Taos - breathing in...
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ELKSeptember 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM
love Taos....deep abiding photos here...
Nancy your sidebar went to the very bottom of your blog...
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UnknownSeptember 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM
It's been too long since I've visited your blog! I've enjoyed catching up with your work and words! Always a stellar experience. Thanks!
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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.