Openings Connecting: led by light

Monday, October 10, 2011

led by light

GOLDEN LIGHT
LEADING
to a
WARM NIGHT

11 comments:

ValeriannaOct 10, 2011 06:22 PM
Its golden in these parts, too... and getting red and orange and delicious!
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Shayna PrenticeOct 10, 2011 07:59 PM
Just splendid!
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layersOct 10, 2011 08:55 PM
Yes, a beautiful light will always lead to a warm glowing place.
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ArtPropelledOct 11, 2011 05:05 AM
You take beautiful photos Neva and I love your header.
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La Dolce VitaOct 11, 2011 06:27 PM
mmmm mmmm golden sunlight all over the place... just splendid... xx
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Blue Sky DreamingOct 11, 2011 10:57 PM
WOW! What beautiful photos...gold captured completely!
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S. EtoleOct 13, 2011 07:02 AM
standing in a pool of gold ...
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SethOct 15, 2011 06:13 PM
Gorgeous images. You have captured the golden light so very well. AND how amazing that my code for this post is SOLARIA - which is plural for solarium - which is a room exposed to the sun!!
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VelmaOct 16, 2011 05:36 PM
it's still gold here, though is bleaching some. beautiful post.
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Heavens2BetsyOct 24, 2011 12:55 AM
Fantastic autumnal pathway. penny
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Maggie NealeOct 27, 2011 07:18 PM
From your comment of light I was led into more light of your post. Beautiful golden petals, grand shoes, and very fine header.

Love the milkweed photos. Thanks Neva.
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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.