"Waterless" Lithography Print
An experimental version of the traditional lithography method utilizing water-soluble pencil, a toner wash, aquarium sealant, & lots of heat.
Inspired by the following passage from Lyall Watson's Gifts of Unknown Things:
"Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos."
Linocut Print
Inspired by the following passage from The Great Gatsby:
"There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
Pinhole Camera Photo Prints
Using a handmade pinhole camera (made from an oatmeal canister), this series sought to play with a stripe motif. From changing my placement during exposure to using different developing times for different portions of the photo, I created a variety of optical effects.
Cyanotype Series/Appropriation Photo Project
Appropriation photo project utilizing the cyanotype printing process. Inspired by MTA wayfinding & appropriating photographers' subway scenes.
Photographic work is not mine. All original photography rights to the respective owners.
Photogram Series
A broken Coca-Cola glass set atop photosensitive paper & then developed. Positive & negative tiles used to create different kaleidescopic effects.
This is a reworked photogram series based on one I did in 2015 sans computer. Used one of my original prints to recreate the series digitally.
Drypoint Intaglio Print
Inspired by how perspective affects what & how we see. Each facet of the crystalline formation over the eye will provide a slightly different perspective at objectively the same subject.
Photo/history project documenting the buildings and architecture around the city of Lancaster. The Red Rose City has a beautiful array of beaux arts & deco buildings (& plenty of red brick!), & its the decorative façades, prominent cornices, & quirky relief ornamentations that give the cityscape such character. While Lancaster largely retains its quaint appeal, urban renewal has been in progress since the '70s. This blog aims to capture snapshots of the quaint little Lancastrian details while they're still here.
Full series to come
An exercise with scraps
