Openings Connecting: "MY" MOUNTAIN REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE THIS

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

"MY" MOUNTAIN REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE THIS

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Jeane MyersAugust 3, 2010 at 9:15 AM
beautiful Nancy!
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UnknownAugust 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Beautiful. A mountain is like the sea.. forever changing. I lived 30 years at the foot of Pirongia mountain..my years of married life. When I first went there I thought I would miss the sea..but I never did.
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rivergardenstudioAugust 3, 2010 at 10:19 AM
mesmerizing... your mountain calls to me. thank you so much.
roxanne
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ArtPropelledAugust 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Aahh... spirit of place ... beautiful.
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sukipoetAugust 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM
lovely
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ooglebloopsAugust 3, 2010 at 4:03 PM
Beautiful!! I love the mountains of Va, but they don't compare to the real mountains out west- as your video attests!
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S. EtoleAugust 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM
There's nothing quite like the majesty of a mountain ... good to see you back.
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Renee HowellAugust 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM
memories kissed
blessed
shared
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layersAugust 3, 2010 at 8:39 PM
So you have a mountain-- just like I have an island.. whenever I talk about where I live I always say "my island is..." like I own it :-)
I do think we associate ourselves with our environment- as deeply part and hard to separate.
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ShaylaAugust 5, 2010 at 6:14 AM
Wow-the mists made me catch my breath and I loved the stacked cumulus clouds. You have a beautiful mountain.
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SethAugust 12, 2010 at 6:45 AM
Spectacular. It is almost too beautiful to be real!
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annell4September 17, 2010 at 6:59 AM
Oh, I forgot to put in the little word. My comment disappeared, but I wanted to affirm that indeed she looks like that. And to thank you for the beautiful post.
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annell4September 17, 2010 at 7:01 AM
I was at Blue Sky Dreaming, and saw that you said, you had some plexie etched? I was curious about that? 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.