Far from the eye (resonance in between #2, #1, #3 & #4)2020
Artist statement: There is buoyancy in looking, finding a way across shadow and highlight. From the time when the first experiments were conducted in photography, artists have been authors of light, making clear and determined decisions that render pictorial abstract realisms. The cameraless methodology starts with a perceptible object, moving through my fingers and hands. That one object is added with others and finds a companionship of resonance. The transforming slip may not be physically clear upon first gaze but evolves for me from material agitation in the darkroom. The ending is often at a great distance from where one thing had started. The beginning acquires questions, while the ending poses others.
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Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.
