this image of a landscape with a horse - is a full frame 35mm panorama Letterbox style photograph - again the edges of negative show.
It was printed on Black and White paper then scanned and tinted blue in Photoshop.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
This is Full Frame 35mm Panorama
this image of a landscape with a horse - is a full frame 35mm panorama Letterbox style photograph - again the edges of negative show.
It was printed on Black and White paper then scanned and tinted blue in Photoshop.
A Book End piece: Is began before the Flood of '93
I started using a plastic $10 Panorama camera I had picked up in Topeka at Wolfes Camera That Spring of 1993 and while the image I will post first was not done with these plastic cameras, the sweeping change in style erupted from that winter and spring" Before the Flood actually over took my home.
This piece was one in a series I started that used a 1942 Websters Dictionary i rescued from a yard sale after it had rained on it. My friend and I drove down that street everyday toward her house on the way home and it rained almost everyday in Kansas that Spring. So I saw this old dictionary still sitting there wet and finally i stopped and took it home and rescued it.... a life changing event for my artistic style that year.
(I will reserve this space for the photo of said dictionary as it was resurrected).....Please Stand By.
Thinking in the literary idiom (like "Thinking in the Photographic Idiom" a book title I have, also in a box where my real life resides) is and was a new deeper trick to add to my photography. If I could NOT get people to look at Actual Photographs then i would used torn scraps of (fine papers) paper and a label maker to transcend the standard issue 'picture' and make the viewer ask WHAT does it mean?
I am guessing; Poets are sometimes asked What does that mean also. So the process of searching a 1942 Dictionary clearly took on dramatic cultural and social difference in references to women and objects as well as an idea based on a WORD. A word i found that was a catalyst to really make me think and then USE THOSE OLD words was the word "Nymphomaniac" in 1942 that was not such a nice thing about the female gender: whereas in 1993, it did not seem to appear harsh in meaning - except for a one guy I used to know...briefly..what they said is true.....
again I digress...........
The technique of searching words and then pairing them up took on an entire process in itself: That was the fun of it not for everyone - it is tedious and looking up meanings in newer dictionaries Circa 20th Century: was like an addiction that then turned into collecting Dictionaries.
Note the paper backs i bought just 3 years ago, stunned me in lack of any sophistication of vocabulary or breadth of diversity and knowledge of much more than slang. So you might know "Cassette Player" but unless your older the word: Terse... Right out the window.
My favorite dictionary was the 1981 Funk and Wagnalls paper back, and I found older Funk and Wagnalls, even a large double set.
So Once the word pairs were taped to a page- reflecting my intent or covert poetry or signals of hidden personal meaning and to be sure the totally out there enigma word traps that when combined with the photograph the viewer had to ponder any deeper meaning as it applied to them - or just be hacked off at me.
I did however provide a long narrow tablet (list) with xerox copies of the 1942 Websters meanings in the first exhibit i got a grant from the university to present in the Student Union of KSU. ...and My first newspaper review.
So with the words printed or rather squeezed out of the old label maker, those were then paired up with the words - still on the plain paper one word at top and other at bottom and single CONTACT sized black and White photographic print Very small.
The image in this first post of "Debutante:Aphasia" is an actual 35mm frame with extra black around edge to show it is full frame of the negative: THIS IS how I presented all photographs- Never Cropped or edited - ..as so many faux Photographers do today: shoot a crappy pic and edit in Photoshop! I was actually told that by someone who said its all in the computer now.. (after that statement: I went scorched earth into searching for any works on Photographic Ethics - did not find what I needed - so there was my bitch about it.. )
After all the paper was torn into sizes mostly around 3"x3" or very similar - with exception of later postcards and tiny 2"x2" many where in this size range- it make you get close to read it and see photo and then the paint....
So the paint. After the labels were applied on white papers and taped to a cardboard backing the Paint was rubbed on with fingers - layer on layers; working with paint directly from many small jars or tubes of many colors (or favorites) at some point when I had enough to fill desk or drying stand- I glued down the photos.
I then used left over fabric paint that made glossy, raised dots and to add to those were very small brushes- at some point. I also found I like metallic paint especially gold, and iridescent tints.
I also began using old pens and nails and sandpaper to scratch into the surfaces- thus the added nuance. finally I used the finest brush to highlight the lettering across top of embossed labels - not always but especially when your making a pun or feast out of the paint the words are always important in the process.
SO Now what make a youtube video and show you the dvd of my musical portfolio? sorry the last least has left me wanting and the old PowerMac is just tired too and too old.... I will try to add a image with a Panorama photograph to represent similar words. it appears blogging is time consuming and in this chair- painful as well........ DON'T FORGET TO FEED THE FISH.......
This piece was one in a series I started that used a 1942 Websters Dictionary i rescued from a yard sale after it had rained on it. My friend and I drove down that street everyday toward her house on the way home and it rained almost everyday in Kansas that Spring. So I saw this old dictionary still sitting there wet and finally i stopped and took it home and rescued it.... a life changing event for my artistic style that year.
(I will reserve this space for the photo of said dictionary as it was resurrected).....Please Stand By.
Thinking in the literary idiom (like "Thinking in the Photographic Idiom" a book title I have, also in a box where my real life resides) is and was a new deeper trick to add to my photography. If I could NOT get people to look at Actual Photographs then i would used torn scraps of (fine papers) paper and a label maker to transcend the standard issue 'picture' and make the viewer ask WHAT does it mean?
I am guessing; Poets are sometimes asked What does that mean also. So the process of searching a 1942 Dictionary clearly took on dramatic cultural and social difference in references to women and objects as well as an idea based on a WORD. A word i found that was a catalyst to really make me think and then USE THOSE OLD words was the word "Nymphomaniac" in 1942 that was not such a nice thing about the female gender: whereas in 1993, it did not seem to appear harsh in meaning - except for a one guy I used to know...briefly..what they said is true.....
again I digress...........
The technique of searching words and then pairing them up took on an entire process in itself: That was the fun of it not for everyone - it is tedious and looking up meanings in newer dictionaries Circa 20th Century: was like an addiction that then turned into collecting Dictionaries.
Note the paper backs i bought just 3 years ago, stunned me in lack of any sophistication of vocabulary or breadth of diversity and knowledge of much more than slang. So you might know "Cassette Player" but unless your older the word: Terse... Right out the window.
My favorite dictionary was the 1981 Funk and Wagnalls paper back, and I found older Funk and Wagnalls, even a large double set.
So Once the word pairs were taped to a page- reflecting my intent or covert poetry or signals of hidden personal meaning and to be sure the totally out there enigma word traps that when combined with the photograph the viewer had to ponder any deeper meaning as it applied to them - or just be hacked off at me.
I did however provide a long narrow tablet (list) with xerox copies of the 1942 Websters meanings in the first exhibit i got a grant from the university to present in the Student Union of KSU. ...and My first newspaper review.
The image in this first post of "Debutante:Aphasia" is an actual 35mm frame with extra black around edge to show it is full frame of the negative: THIS IS how I presented all photographs- Never Cropped or edited - ..as so many faux Photographers do today: shoot a crappy pic and edit in Photoshop! I was actually told that by someone who said its all in the computer now.. (after that statement: I went scorched earth into searching for any works on Photographic Ethics - did not find what I needed - so there was my bitch about it.. )
After all the paper was torn into sizes mostly around 3"x3" or very similar - with exception of later postcards and tiny 2"x2" many where in this size range- it make you get close to read it and see photo and then the paint....
So the paint. After the labels were applied on white papers and taped to a cardboard backing the Paint was rubbed on with fingers - layer on layers; working with paint directly from many small jars or tubes of many colors (or favorites) at some point when I had enough to fill desk or drying stand- I glued down the photos.
I then used left over fabric paint that made glossy, raised dots and to add to those were very small brushes- at some point. I also found I like metallic paint especially gold, and iridescent tints.
I also began using old pens and nails and sandpaper to scratch into the surfaces- thus the added nuance. finally I used the finest brush to highlight the lettering across top of embossed labels - not always but especially when your making a pun or feast out of the paint the words are always important in the process.
SO Now what make a youtube video and show you the dvd of my musical portfolio? sorry the last least has left me wanting and the old PowerMac is just tired too and too old.... I will try to add a image with a Panorama photograph to represent similar words. it appears blogging is time consuming and in this chair- painful as well........ DON'T FORGET TO FEED THE FISH.......
THE RED HORSE
There are variations of size of this and some I put on wood blocks that can big hung in more intimate spaces or perhaps someday my friend the hairdresser in Hays, KS will be 'allowed' to hang a 5"x8" block at her station- odd how the most causal of places can sometime just make it more difficult than it has to be. Irony of matching Decor is that this work would be a huge bonus hanging in the black walled salon.... but I digress.....
The Horse started out as an ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH on Black and White Film and printed on 11x14 glossy paper. The surface was then applied with oil paints, making all the background disappear and transforming a WHITE HORSE into a RED one.
There are embossing labels at top and bottom giving it a sub-text title that is obscured by the covering of paint. Whereas in other styles of my work these words and sub titles or actual titles... of some literary value and enigma would be highlighted in contrasting color and draw your attention: This one says "Portable:Dedication" fairly innocuous pair of words by themselves: I will leave the meaning; if there is one, to you.
SO- this work and a singular other horse, done in similar fashion exist as described above.
The originals are not for sale- but the custom made hand pulled prints I make are.
I use Epson Ultra Chrome Inks and Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl paper.
The surface of the paper is coated with a micro ceramic layer which the pigment is embedded into. This allows for Long Life (100 Yrs est.) and the details of the scanned image to rise up a bit and the scumbled 'scratch' marks I have drawn across the wet paint are visible as are the shades of color in background that seem dense and opaque with little variance actually contain many colors; although less important that what flies out at you: The Horse herself. Her legs trail off toward the field where she stood and her neck and head become the iconic image people seem to care for.
The larger the image the more impact it seems to command: my prints are maxed out on 13"x19" paper and image is short of that with a boarder. I had checked into professional printed larger sized ones but have no means to do it for myself: at 24x36 size would be amazing in a larger space, but calculate that by square foot pricing....
This Images was in at least one juried show and sold there before even judged, but it did make it into show, it seemed a good time to make use of promotions at that time but ironically the arts center it hung imposed a special rule just for me that I could NOT place a few smaller sleeved prints in the gift gallery for sale...found that very interesting, but if you read above RANT things in art world bring into focus not all things are fair even when apparently favorable.
I was told by a patron of that gallery that the morning after opening night a man came in a requested to buy a copy.....funny I never got a call that day or ever..... would have liked to sell that man a copy - IF the merchandise is not there the gallery can't sell it- and they did not make a 33 1/3% commission either - so i say fuck it; but i anguished over this situation: DOUBLE STANDARD HorseShit for quite a long while... You have no idea and it all defied logic.
perhaps this is too personal and naming names by Not naming names -
My spirit was pounded down by a number of people and events and it is just time to air out the work, they have sat in a box for just over a year now- while my physical health has declined and economics of the world have gotten worse.
SO PARDON ME if I get political and revealing along the way: Betrayal and Loss have a way of corrupting ones soul - STEALING THE LIGHT! until all you wish for is it to go away.
IF You find this and wish to get an estimate or purchase a print you may find my ETSY Store here: http://www.etsy.com/people/PhotographicAnomaly
I HOPE to have some works posted on that store fairly soon.
Also If You are new to Etsy to contact me via the store all you need to do is create and acct as a buyer, i do not think you need to provide payment info until or if you like www.Etsy.com itself; I am not sure of new rules but that is what you must do to contact my shop there.
THIS WORK IS DONE BY WOMAN ARTIST IN KANSAS of a KANSAN HORSE.....
New Beginning or You can never go Home?
Difficult Roads: Need Serious Tires.
As a Woman artist: Society has little need for us, unless our name is: a 'Vera Wang' or 'Georgia O'Keeffe' !
Even Frida Kahlo's life was a torturous walk...
So unless your married to a man with MONEY and can carry on your art - (because you do not worry about your roof or meals or health care... ) then a woman's life as an artist depends on many factors that few realize the nature of. How OUR production 'or lack of' - our life's work is accepted or rejected or if we are offered MONEY for a thing we have made - is all part of what I now see as a Social Construct of Pain and struggle, against a society that expects a 19th century view of a woman to still be in place.
Kansas in 2010, became Internationally known as its new Governor swiftly, CASTRATED the Arts and Public Arts Funding in Kansas - Eliminating the Kansas Arts Commission totally in a moment of Joy for those with a political bent akin to backward ignorance and anti-intellectualism- But HEY - Kansas made history and NEWS!
I, myself shut down - drained of a empowerment and belief in oneself- that makes a small business person need to have self motivation: all door and windows and hatches were closed off to me - especially as a woman in a man's world. I saw women in power who were on the end of those state and federal monies- time and again make clear path for men in that community even as I stood face to face volunteering my time OFFERING TO TEACH CLASSES or create a program- with NO EXPECTATION for YOUR TAX art pennies or dollars to come into my personal pocket - even as i saw the 501 (c) (3) rules broken by others to favor these MEN.
In that respect; I 'almost'... can't fault the anti-intellectuals in the KS State Government for destroying the KS ARTS Funding... but they did demoralize me from afar. the real damage that has set me back from posting a single thing to this site and listing MY ART PRODUCTS on my ETSY.com store are a combination of these things.
THIS BLOG is Not to be political in nature! it is to be the JOY of Art as I have seen others Thrilled with my work. It saddens me this is a Political and Personal expression of PAIN.
SO - Difficult Road has been walked this past year- most difficult since my birth and the months after: I am sure of it. need to ask my Mother - but I bet she struggled....
SO - NEW TIRES: ? literally - metaphorically - spiritually -
Well You can Never go Home: I am sure I heard that one in the Bible a couple decades ago... or some variation on it.
Maybe I can live near by and sent out my visions and gifts through the Internet - assuming i can afford to keep the phone and Internet for much longer.....
As a Woman artist: Society has little need for us, unless our name is: a 'Vera Wang' or 'Georgia O'Keeffe' !
Even Frida Kahlo's life was a torturous walk...
So unless your married to a man with MONEY and can carry on your art - (because you do not worry about your roof or meals or health care... ) then a woman's life as an artist depends on many factors that few realize the nature of. How OUR production 'or lack of' - our life's work is accepted or rejected or if we are offered MONEY for a thing we have made - is all part of what I now see as a Social Construct of Pain and struggle, against a society that expects a 19th century view of a woman to still be in place.
Kansas in 2010, became Internationally known as its new Governor swiftly, CASTRATED the Arts and Public Arts Funding in Kansas - Eliminating the Kansas Arts Commission totally in a moment of Joy for those with a political bent akin to backward ignorance and anti-intellectualism- But HEY - Kansas made history and NEWS!
In that respect; I 'almost'... can't fault the anti-intellectuals in the KS State Government for destroying the KS ARTS Funding... but they did demoralize me from afar. the real damage that has set me back from posting a single thing to this site and listing MY ART PRODUCTS on my ETSY.com store are a combination of these things.
THIS BLOG is Not to be political in nature! it is to be the JOY of Art as I have seen others Thrilled with my work. It saddens me this is a Political and Personal expression of PAIN.
SO - Difficult Road has been walked this past year- most difficult since my birth and the months after: I am sure of it. need to ask my Mother - but I bet she struggled....
SO - NEW TIRES: ? literally - metaphorically - spiritually -
Well You can Never go Home: I am sure I heard that one in the Bible a couple decades ago... or some variation on it.
Maybe I can live near by and sent out my visions and gifts through the Internet - assuming i can afford to keep the phone and Internet for much longer.....
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