2018 - ongoing salt print, nature print, photogram 10"x8", 8"x10"
Nature Prints – using leaves that I paint with silver nitrate and the press between sheets of salted paper. The leaves are removed and the paper is exposed to UV light until the image appears. Each print is unique. I call this series “Herbarium”
Buggy is a series of collodion wet-plate photograms on glass or aluminum. Most are 4.24" x 5.5"
The insects are placed directly on the plate or in the enlarger and projected on the plate. The cricket photograms were made for the limited edition handmade artist book "Crickets" - a collaboration with Leonard Seastone of Tideline Press.
The salt print was the dominant paper-based photographic process for producing positive prints (from negatives) from 1839 until approximately 1860.The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by English scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot. He made what he called “sensitive paper” for “photogenic drawing” by wetting a sheet of writing paper with a weak solution of ordinary table salt, blotting and drying it, then brushing one side with a strong solution of silver nitrate. This makes the paper light sensitive and is exposed when dry.
The nature prints in my Herbarium series are incredibly simple. You coat a sheet of watercolor paper – I use Fabriano Artistico – with a salt solution and let it dry. Then when it is time to make the print you paint silver nitrate on your specimen – mine are leaves – with a foam …
What we’ve been doing…. Lisa and I presented our work for the Peters Valley Artist Talk Series on May 5th, 2021. I love to talk about my art but talking about myself is excruciating. It was a wonderful opportunity to explain how my various projects relate to each other and fit into the context of …