Newest Work

Double Exposure

What happens when you receive from the film lab, a role of film that you somehow, double exposed in the camera and don’t remember doing. Was it the automatic winder in the camera or the camera itself, just sitting too long between uses? So many questions as to how this occurred.  I realize now, and more importantly, appreciate the boon of this happenstance.

When the printer developed the 35 mm roll of film and printed it, he chose where to break the role of imagery into 4 x 6 inch prints.   From these, I digitally scanned them to create negatives.

The negatives were then used as the matrix to create the cyanotype. Later, I digitally printed the negative onto a Vellum material. Facing each other on the page, the negative, and the cyanotype, became a mirrored image. Another type of exposure, doubled.

The intimate scale of the cyanotype prints lead to the book form. Not a bound codex, but an accordion form that makes it possible to place the images in relationship.

Treat these images for what they are; abstractions of the real world, a place in time. All the images are from around my home and studio; Inside and out.   Like cubism from a century ago, they offer a fractured and multidimensional view of my world. These images are akin to how I work in painting and monotype prints. Discovery by random occurrence, combined with purposeful choosing.  The book is the result of a set of choices. There is no manipulation of the images. This is how each one came out of the camera. The sequence and choice of which images to display in this book are not specifically narrative, but they tell a story.

There is something ineffable about the photographic image.   Photo equals light, captured and held, then digitally remade and wholly new. Old methods and forms with new technology bridging place and time.