cloud collage

today i started working with some digital prints.  

snow replaced by wall

1st eager attempt

6 vistas

here are 6 - 20 inch square photographs that i took last week when i was up the glorious sulpher mountain.  ive been in the colour darkroom with my sub-standard negative development and my substandard expired photo-paper to make this 10 foot composition on my studio wall.  

I have made 3 copies of each frame so that i can experiment with the others by cutting them up and collaging with their jagged edges!!  weeee

shame that the 4th and 5th don't quite meet.... im  missing a slice of reality.

printing again

i am printing colour photos again, which i haven't done since leaving school approx. 7 years ago.  yikes!  im still using the same paper i had left over from then, so it ultra-expired.  it is coming out really yellow, which makes for some interest, but is less than optimal.  luckily i am just churning through it and making images i can collage with, so am not completely worried about them looking not so perfect.   anyway, here are some experiments and documents so far!

handblown glass is esential when drinking mountain water

anything else is an insult to the mountain itself

my favorite cup is pictured here next to equally important objects. 

studio excitMENT!!!!

this place is freaking awesome

the library, the people and the food has all been wonderful.  tomorrow i get to become acquainted with my studio.  excitement abounds