Wheels

So lots of research and turning of the wheels. Currently right now I am working on more written work to present a paper to my advisor on Thursday. I hope to put aside some of Sunday and all of Monday again. So during my process of exposing I have realized that matter from more so the vegetables burns easier and faster in the sun. So I am going to attempt to coat the carrot, pepper, fennel again because I feel like I should be able to get more definition than what I received.

I will be researching today on how to build my own camera obscura so that I will have an all day project on Monday, besides writing a paper and exposing some more. I will also be researching the transfer of emulsions or maybe how to burn onto a leaf to create an image and then see if that is printable, like I have said before.

In the meantime I was directed towards Abelardo Morells newer works and I must say, Im fascinated. Using a camera obscura to produce an image projected from the landscape he is in onto the ground of that landscape. He is allowing the ground to almost make up a more painterly quality to the images. What makes it fascinating is the fact that almost what makes and is perceived almost to be the paper for the image is the make up of itself. Brilliant. Check it out for yourself.

http://www.abelardomorell.net/posts/tent-camera/

Exposing Again!

Here goes. All papers are labeled about out for the day.....at least until I go to work.

Plimpton

I was in Providence the other day with a very dear friend and artist of mine and she said I should watch Plimpton. Of course she works at the Cable Car Cinema and wanted me to stay another night to see the show but of course I couldnt. Here is the preview and it also aligns with the suggested book Morgans Passing by Ann Tyler. Check it out.

Old results, artist, ideas....

Ok. SO I am going to try to not get mad here since the computer just erased and did not save any of the great ideas I just wrote about in this post...its alright....nothing I can do but try to re-write it. 

Alright, so today and the household chores did not work as well as I had hoped. I added some notes to the notes page on two resources I used and I am almost done my book but may not be able to finish those notes by the end of the evening but I will redeem myself hopefully tomorrow morning! 

Here you have all the materials I went out and got at the grocery store and I will coat a little piece of paper with them tonight to do a group exposure tomorrow and wednesday to see how they come out. The sun is on its way down currently and with my other frames I will have to put in some leaves like I said earlier. Here you see pepper, carrots, blueberries, grapes, fennel, red cabbage, and raspberries. We shall see what tomorrow yields for these emulsions but I am very excited about the colors right now. 

So last week I did a couple exposures on the paper I coated with beets, wine and other matter.  Here are two of leaves from some house hold plants, you know the ones you cant kill and everyone has. They dried up and became very fragile and transparent along with extremely flat. So looking at them and feeling them I got to thinking could I make these negatives to print in the darkroom? So I started thinking about a way to transfer emulsion from a negative to a leaf and then printing the leaf in the darkroom. I also was thinking about Caleb and I and our discussion at our first meeting about setting up a camera obscura and capturing the sun rays on a leaf. Well which one would be better to use? A leaf such as this or a new one that still has so much life...guess Ill try both. I put some fire to one of them to see how it would recieve it took to it right away, bubbling up and then setting fire because I put it too close to the leaf. So another thought was could I burn an image onto a leaf and then print that in the darkroom? Looks like another experiment. I will surely have a todo list at the end of this post. 

SO here is the exposure of the beet/wine mix I made to try to make the color stand out a little more. Important to note that there is more wine then beet, it was very little that was mixed to this coating. Overall a good exposure but not quite like the beet itself but a more subtle color and pleasing none the less.


So I got called yesterday to do a ten minute survey about health and got a ten dollar gift certificate to Amazon so I bought this which will help with my process and should of been done earlier but at least Ill have it soon.

So now this leaves me with my todo list of what to experiment with next. 

-Print the negatives that had remains of the leaf dried on

-make a negative on a leaf and print that

-make a mark through fire or heat onto a leaf and print that

-coat paper with all material 

-expose all different emulsions to see how they print

-expose leaves onto themselves to see how they expose

-make a camera obscura to expose a dried leaf and fresh leaf to capture sunlight. 

This is one of the artists that Caleb had told me about while we met and he uses paper inside a camera to capture the sunlight by allowing it to burn onto the surface of the paper. 

Check him out: Chris McCaw http://www.chrismccaw.com/Home.html

Great artists to check out!

I stumbled across this......must of clicked it by accident in my email. Not sure how it appeared in my tabs but it was really inspiring for me to look at. 

Check out this site:

http://www.philaphotoarts.org/gallery/current-exhibition/call-for-entries/

Ben Dehaan

Julianna Foster

Gwynne Johnson

Big Production Day #2

Ok. So its been a little while away, had to work, wedding etc. But no excuses! The goal is to kick myself to gear today!

Posted some notes from the reading the Pursuit of Happiness from Time Magazine and only have a couple pages left of the How to be an Existentialist by Gary Cox and then my notes will be complete on that book as well. All in the while reading Walden by Thoreau and others. I have been recommended by a good friend to watch the movie Plimpton, which I will research tonight when the sun goes down. 

Today here is my goal, and I hope to post some pictures later:

-Go to the grocery store and get carrots, blueberries, a green vegetable, purple potatoes, etc. looking for fruits and vegetables that have color and will hopefully produce an emulsion worth printing on. I will be doing hopefully a hand full of small tests to see the type of exposure they will yield but the paper will have to be coated today and exposed tomorrow. 

-Finish reading books and write notes on them

-watch a movie/documentary pertaining to my goal/thesis

-I want to draw on a print so while Im at the store getting watercolor paper for larger prints using the vegetable/fruit matter I will pick up a good pen to draw freely on a print. 

- I will be exposing on leaves today and trying the thought that Caleb and I talked about exposing their roots onto themselves. I will look for a handful of single leaves that have roots to test this as well as finding spinach leaves, which I heard were good to expose on, and a couple others to test as well. 

Ultimate goal:

Coat at least five papers with five different sources

expose at least three new leaves and five leaves total using multiple methods. 

set up a camera obscura?

finish two books

start paper for the 15th

watch a movie

draw on a print

Like said, pictures will come later but for now this is my goal.