Dirt....

So here are some quick scans. Again no edits. These are large files and I will be printing them, come the colder days when my production may slow down, large and cant wait to see how they look. These swatches were left in my garden and coated with the remaining emulsions I had from last big exposure. They were left outside for about a week and a half and they enjoyed some heavy rain as well. I am very excited to edit these but wanted to throw a tease up before ending my day.
The way the swatches turned out it seems that almost all the emulsions, such as the beet juice, was just washed off. This brings me back to my discussion I had with Claudia.....do I really need to coat the paper? Can I make marks without a coat? That being said...JUST NOW by writing that I have decided to change my next task. Tomorrow I had planned to juice some beets and coat a large sheet of rolled paper to set outside as the leaves fall from my maple tree and get tossed around, rain etc. what kind of marks would be made. Instead of taking a sheet of paper to cover the entire board I have to expose on I will only use half with beet juice and half without and just paper and see what kind of impressions and marks the leaves will leave without any kind of "aid".
The goal tomorrow is to take a video of me preparing, coating, and exposing the paper in my backyard. I will put the video up on Sunday which will be my next big work day along with Monday, yay for Holidays.

Some of these swatches still have dirt on them and some I did not scan because I didnt think they had any real marks. I havent scrapped off all the dirt to just leave the paper. These scans I thought it was necessary to leave them how the came and a shake but not deliberately changing what sticks. Maybe Ill come back to those later.

Take a look at the garden swatches:

This is from the other day. Scans from rain and lemon juice that I captured on a beet emulsion. 

This is of rain and one side of the paper being wet and the other dry and so you can see the pooling that started on the wet side and the dry side captured the individual drops. 

This image is of the beet emulsion and then I sprayed a lemon half on the paper to see how the beets would react to the citrus. I think I want to play with this idea a little more. Juicing on a juice that is used to capture the juice....hmmmmmmm

This last image is of a heavy rain and a quick step outside to capture the rain drops. All these images have videos in earlier posts if you are interested in seeing them. 

I was really happy to come across this artist while reading Art and Science Now.

Check him out. Daro Montag

Here is a link to a You Tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffq-Kuw_Kzo#!

Here is a link to view some his extraordinary work: http://www.microbialart.com/galleries/daro-montag/

Another Productive Day.

Documenting the rain today....very exciting. I am also really excited about the first couple videos I produced. I plan on setting aside a day to print some of these scans larger to see how they look, of course that difference wont be quite visible on the blog but it will be good for next residency and my meeting with my mentor. These videos should be in order from the beginning. I have some paper outside in my garden that I will take up tomorrow, let dry, and scan and I have a large sheet of white paper I have left out my back steps that should have some nice marks at this point.

I did another photo shoot. I am experimenting now with putting the last bit of fruit from cutting or eating into a Ball jar and then I am going to document its decomposing stages. I have a banana peel, apple, celery, and red onion. I look forward to seeing the changes. I think I will put them outside and then photograph them each day, should changes be visible. here is a photo:

While preparing paper I decided  to document my table and its appearance. Here is the image of the table and then I took a shot from a side angle from above with only natural light so the perspective is completely different. 

 I played with some husk cherry shells I had and thought they would be a nice mark maker for this work. I placed some on paper and let sit and I put glass over one and let it sit.

My results:

husk cherry shells and glass

husk cherry shells with no glass

citrus sprayed paper, still drying

 rain paper dried and quite intriguing.

All results on a board fully drying