Openings Connecting: SO LINEAR

Saturday, November 5, 2011

SO LINEAR

SOME MORNINGS, I NEED A THEME. TODAY, LINES ...

7 comments:

UnknownNovember 5, 2011 at 9:07 PM
I love your found lines ... Beautiful!
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ArtPropelledNovember 5, 2011 at 11:40 PM
Wish i could follow all the Autumns around the world. The sun is peeking out from behind the clouds this Spring morning.... after a few days of drizzle. Is that frost i see on the grass?
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ooglebloopsNovember 6, 2011 at 4:44 AM
And, shadows...............
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Caterina GiglioNovember 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM
lovely lines found by you... and snowing now... sigh...
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layersNovember 14, 2011 at 8:35 PM
such subtle soft lines.. very poetic imagery.. to match your words
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LauraNovember 21, 2011 at 6:26 PM
lines that intersect and others that long too...beautiful.
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Renee HowellNovember 29, 2011 at 6:57 AM
Love the L I N E S! Fantastic. Each photo more amazing than the next. Great eyes and good snapping!

And then I see the "for Renee: tag. aww. We are lucky, we too.

Love the red leaves, natures own prayer flags. And the tire lines! I'm going to have my eyes on parking lots!

xox - Renee
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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.