Openings Connecting: the SCAN artist.....?

Thursday, July 1, 2010

the SCAN artist.....?

exciting lesson

oldest rock
symbolic pods

process

(desiring a mac)

7 comments:

Poetic ArtistJuly 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Your post always inspires me.. I so love all of your beautiful creations.
Katelen
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S. EtoleJuly 1, 2010 at 6:24 PM
I really like this and I am wondering how you did it ...
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SethJuly 1, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Wow. Magical image. It really captivates me.
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The Artist Within UsJuly 2, 2010 at 12:19 AM
Greetings Neva,

Your text brought a smile to my face as i have been a Mac supporter for years, make that decades. On the other hand I find that I am still musing over the image and what you are alluding to.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Egmont
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LawendulaJuly 2, 2010 at 5:30 AM
Simply lovely!
xox
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Renee HowellJuly 2, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Was just looking at MY pod tree. Wondering if you would like some more pods. One can never have too many pods - YOU know.
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UnknownJuly 3, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Evocative.
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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.