Openings Connecting: OH, SHOOT

Monday, May 7, 2012

OH, SHOOT

BIG QUESTION MARK? WRITINGS IN THE SAND? DIZZY FROM THE LONG HIKE THROUGH TWISTED PATHS IN THE WOODS TO THE WATER?

TRIPOD PROBLEMS?

THE NEW LENS IN MY GLASSES?

all of the above CAN TURN A photo 'shoot' into a SHOE-T!!!

{aw, shoot. just relax}

7 comments:

ELFIMay 7, 2012 at 9:22 AM
époustouflant de beauté.. grande photographe!
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layersMay 8, 2012 at 5:21 PM
You and your camera are like one.. where one begins and one ends..no one knows.. I can tell you are having a wonderful time.
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ReneeMay 12, 2012 at 7:23 AM
learning. experimenting. creating. excellent!
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Jill ZaheerMay 12, 2012 at 5:51 PM
THanks for putting this smile on my face!!
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rivergardenstudioJune 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Oh! Such a beautiful ocean here, your walk, your camera, your boots and the way you lay down and look at it all... Happy June to you Neva....
roxanne
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mansuetudeJune 8, 2012 at 12:01 PM
This is beautiful. The images, and the attitude. The feet at the end, an homage to what we carry and what carries us, and is often ignored. Whole istic.
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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.