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Look at these.

So I was playing with the levels and curves to emphasize the detail, textures and colors in each Anthotype that is present just not as saturated. Even though I say that they have been "altered" I don't know think that holds completely true. The colors and textures that are on these images are amazing....digitally or not.
here are some examples:
This is a beet emulsion that had a deteriorating kale bunch on top of it and went through a rain storm which made the emulsion pool at the bottom...interesting...

This is a beet emulsion with an onion slice at the top and cucumbers in the middle with c kohlrabi slice at the bottom. Very rice colors. 

This is a red cabbage emulsion with slices of red cabbage on top. The cabbage definitely absorbed some of the emulsion and was left overnight for about two nights and days and this reaction was made in the color. Its absolutely beautiful!

This is a red cabbage with onion strings, egg shells and some leaves on it. 

This is a swiss chard leaf on a swiss chard emulsion and the red stem of the leaf left a mark while exposing which is really intriguing. 

A swiss shard leaf on a fennel emulsion.......

Some weeds on a wine emulsion...

This is a wine emulsion with a house plant leaf on it....both of them are the same. 

Then I started playing with other ideas like coating a paper with grapes and then pressing other berries onto the paper to see what that gave me.... This is what I got. You can see where the blueberries dried up and fell off and some of them stuck with their own juices. This has been out to dry for days and it still is sticky and has juices all over it so I had to scan this on a piece of glass on the flatbed. The juices obviously ran and I think I will do another scan and take the fruit remaining off and see what is underneath. 

This is a red cabbage emulsion with about half a red cabbage left to expose on the paper. This is a dense piece. The colors are amazing and there is little to no correction or saturation here in this image. This is really amazing. I love what happened here. The cabbage absorbed the emulsion through getting wet during condensation process and being left overnight a couple times. Its fascinating that some of the details were able to penetrate through the large bulk of the vegetables onto the paper. I am interested in this.....and the thought of just allowing the produce to "die" on itself and leave a trace is really inviting to me in this process as well. 

I tried the last cucumber print and what it gave me was amazing but I wanted to see if I could keep the leaf flat and so I put the leaf under glass here and then the cucumbers on the glass. There were three in a triangle and you can see their marks where the darker green it. Didnt do what I was hoping but it was still good to try. 

This is three kale leaves that I exposed their own roots on. This was difficult because I couldn't get the roots to lay flat on the leaves. There was too thin roots not directly in contact with the leaf and the sun would just wrap around them. I will try this process again though. You can see in the leaves that the bottom where they all connect there is a darker section and that is where the "stump" of the root rested, The rest of them didn't really keep a trace of the root just exposed a little differently and this is the final product. It is definitely a process to try again and play with it. While doing this I grew a connection with the roots themselves. So I decided to scan them as well. Again its hard to scan something that has so much bulk to it but this is the image I made of it. I am curious now if there may be a connection forming here between the digital world of this work and the life and death of this work. Is there a thought of creating a diptych.... Im not sure.