Openings Connecting: MORNING WALK

Thursday, October 1, 2009

MORNING WALK

first signs
with the big chill
just seconds away.

7 comments:

Tess KincaidOctober 1, 2009 at 6:04 AM
There is nothing that compares with a beautiful October walk.
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nancy neva gaglianoOctober 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM
sooooooooooo true!! love getting the sweaters out, too.
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LawendulaOctober 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM
What a leaf! (Last picture) So beautiful!
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layersOctober 1, 2009 at 11:12 PM
love to see paths.. always wondering what is up ahead-- next...
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BeaOctober 2, 2009 at 6:30 AM
Maples have such beautiful colors. My Oaks and Black Walnuts are browns and shades of brownyyellow.
I need to take a walk where there are maples. Beautiful pictures. :)Bea
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SethOctober 2, 2009 at 7:41 AM
Thanks for the hit of nature!
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Caterina GiglioOctober 2, 2009 at 8:05 AM
in colorado we never put our sweaters away!
these photos are making me so homesick for MI my dear! so beautiful and just as gorgeous a I remember it! thanks to your stunning photography!
xox cat
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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.