Openings Connecting: CHANGE is Good

Monday, August 1, 2011

CHANGE is Good

TIME TO TURN MY HEAD

TO PLAY IN A NEW WAY

     what will happen to the Buddha above this weekend?

I'll be taking that image into a 2 day workshop here with
EE Smith...exploring what can happen using a
19th printing process: GUM BICHROMATE. . . its alchemy and mysteries
   can make magic~

     we shall see

11 comments:

ooglebloopsAugust 1, 2011 at 6:42 AM
Can't wait for you to share what you learn!!
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UnknownAugust 1, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Ooooh! Sounds really cool :)
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Blue Sky DreamingAugust 1, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Alchemy and mysteries and all things magical...I'll be looking for your next post!
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ValeriannaAugust 1, 2011 at 9:02 AM
I can feel hot wind and feel dry earth under my feet... wonder what the image will "feel" like after its been played with? Have fun!
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Leslie Avon MillerAugust 1, 2011 at 9:42 AM
What better than fun with alchemy and mysteries!
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Caterina GiglioAugust 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM
oooh lovely... cannot wait to see what you do with this... ; )
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Cynthia MonicaAugust 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Change IS good! Will look forward to see what creations come from your workshop experience...
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Ian FosterAugust 2, 2011 at 12:22 AM
I had a flirtation with gum bichromate many years ago and as you say some magical images can be produced. I look forward to seeing the results with great interest.
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rivergardenstudioAugust 2, 2011 at 4:25 PM
Have a wonderful time Neva, and I hope playing in a new way gives you a sense of wonder and your own creative soul. roxanne
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SethAugust 3, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Looking forward to seeing what you create. It all sounds so fascinating.
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Renee HowellAugust 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM
Oh - I can't wait......
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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.