My treatment

Today is my fourth day of treatment. I'm tired but happy. The treatment have been beneficial to my overall health. I have also been doing a lot more around the house and venturing out more lately. I pray next year will be better and my love for life grows. I also pray that your New Year will be better than the previous. Love you all and hope to c u next year.

Explorementation

Explorementation

It is easy to see the forest through the trees especially when no one told you it was impossible.  No one told a raindrop it could be a lake, no one told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up.  I was shown how everything is possible through hard work.  Each drop of sweat is like a silver raindrop.  Exploration and Implementation has created me, like rain.  It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one river, one waterfall, one lake.  I find myself watching reflections of the tree lines on the shores of lakes.  It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one flower, one tree, one person.

There is no such thing as a gift without a problem, the problems created in my art, created gifts.  It is a rarity when I can trace the path when it comes to the influences of work, I would like to take time to thank a few people who really made this happen.

Thank you:

Richard Kelly

I knew the shutter speed was off, I was upset with the results and was going to toss the negatives.  Richard Kelly (forever the optimist) thought the results were pretty cool, he said I could maybe flip the negatives and create a mirror image.

Michael Novara

During a meeting concerning other works, Michael Novara said why don’t you just silk screen print on the photos, I have been busy working on this ever since.

Christianna Kreiss

Who allowed me to really try out Michael’s suggestion by donating some of her rejected prints (prints I would have never rejected) to explore and experiment with.

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin

I got to learn from this artist the Cyanotype printing process (and many others) which directly 

influenced the photo prints and the tie in of all the ideas, great teacher.

Elysia

The best model I have ever worked with, during a studio lighting class with Richard Kelly at PFM.  What a great evening of explorementation.

Anna, Bonnie, Elizabeth and me

I was lucky enough to make this photograph with Bonnie.  It was shot with my 1903 Conley and I really thought I messed up the negative.  I did not use enough chemicals and the majority of the image was not developed.  I cut the bad parts out.  I have been studying non-silver techniques with Elizabeth. Thank you both.

Wikepedia

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron (III) citrate and potassium ferrycyanide.The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the procedure in 1842.  Though the process was developed by Herschel, he considered it as mainly a means of reproducing notes and diagrams, as in blue prints.  It was Anna Atkins who brought this to photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books that documented ferns and other plant life from her extensive seaweed collection.  Atkins placed specimens directly onto coated paper, allowing the action of light to create a silhouette effect. By using this photogram process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first female photographer.

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