Openings Connecting: PEACE be with everyone

Thursday, December 23, 2010

PEACE be with everyone

THREE CANDLES WISHING

GOOD HEALTH, LOVE,

AND

A WORLD OF PEACE

9 comments:

Caterina GiglioDecember 23, 2010 at 1:53 PM
what a beautiful blessing and I send you the same wish ... buon natale xx's
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sukipoetDecember 23, 2010 at 2:35 PM
wishing these things for you too.
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S. EtoleDecember 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM
The same wish for you this Christmas season.
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Renee HowellDecember 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM
lovely light. sigh. enjoy your moments with your family!!! wtl (Will Text Later :-) )
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Poetic ArtistDecember 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Wishing the same for you.
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layersDecember 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Thank you for a wonderful year of sharing of blogs and thoughts and creativity- happy new year!
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Ian FosterDecember 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Thank you for your kind thoughts, I wish the same for you. I thank you also for your thoughtful comments on my work during the year, they give me great encouragement.
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LauraDecember 24, 2010 at 6:03 AM
brightest blessings to you and all of your beloveds!
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ELKDecember 29, 2010 at 3:56 PM
and to you as well my friend .. lovely photo
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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.