Butterfly
Palladium on Arches cotton paper.
A 4X5 inch photograph of a butterfly.The artist makes camera-less negatives in a traditional analogue darkroom, and photographs with a 4X5 inch large format camera.
She prints both photographic types with the palladium process onto a Japanese gampi paper, which is handmade from the fibers of a wild plant, and is tactilely like silk. Palladium is an unforgiving medium. Once painted, it is not retractable and the paper substrate is permanently altered. With multiple printing, the deeply infused palladium tones work their way, layer by layer, into the gampi paper, much like a tattooer’s ink penetrates skin. Brushing the palladium as if drawing on the translucent, plant-based, handmade paper, and using the sun for exposure, brings spontaneity to each print.
Assembling multiple processes and materials in a single final work,the Artist often layers her photographic negatives to make montages, paints with pearl iridescent watercolors and adds hand drawn markings atop the surfaces. Due to her process, each piece is one-of-a-kind.
14 x 14 inches
Palladium on Arches cotton paper.
A 4X5 inch photograph of a butterfly.The artist makes camera-less negatives in a traditional analogue darkroom, and photographs with a 4X5 inch large format camera.
She prints both photographic types with the palladium process onto a Japanese gampi paper, which is handmade from the fibers of a wild plant, and is tactilely like silk. Palladium is an unforgiving medium. Once painted, it is not retractable and the paper substrate is permanently altered. With multiple printing, the deeply infused palladium tones work their way, layer by layer, into the gampi paper, much like a tattooer’s ink penetrates skin. Brushing the palladium as if drawing on the translucent, plant-based, handmade paper, and using the sun for exposure, brings spontaneity to each print.
Assembling multiple processes and materials in a single final work,the Artist often layers her photographic negatives to make montages, paints with pearl iridescent watercolors and adds hand drawn markings atop the surfaces. Due to her process, each piece is one-of-a-kind.
14 x 14 inches
Palladium on Arches cotton paper.
A 4X5 inch photograph of a butterfly.The artist makes camera-less negatives in a traditional analogue darkroom, and photographs with a 4X5 inch large format camera.
She prints both photographic types with the palladium process onto a Japanese gampi paper, which is handmade from the fibers of a wild plant, and is tactilely like silk. Palladium is an unforgiving medium. Once painted, it is not retractable and the paper substrate is permanently altered. With multiple printing, the deeply infused palladium tones work their way, layer by layer, into the gampi paper, much like a tattooer’s ink penetrates skin. Brushing the palladium as if drawing on the translucent, plant-based, handmade paper, and using the sun for exposure, brings spontaneity to each print.
Assembling multiple processes and materials in a single final work,the Artist often layers her photographic negatives to make montages, paints with pearl iridescent watercolors and adds hand drawn markings atop the surfaces. Due to her process, each piece is one-of-a-kind.
14 x 14 inches
