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I was born on Earth during the second half of the twentieth century.

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A metaphor for the conflict between rationality and emotion; betweeen Apollo and Dionysus; between the empirical and the supernatural; between stasis and revolution...

our motto and mission is to

tickle the idiot
rapture the faithful
pity all the ignorant and hateful

illuminate the enlightened
confound the intellectual
with life distilled flood memory's temple
Showing posts with label pinhole photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pinhole photography. Show all posts

March 15, 2013

Microflora? Mechanical Flowerhead? New work from the last weeks......

A composite of four digital files, each scanned from the same analog negative, originally exposed using a pinhole lens and a film-based (120 format) camera. Or, in an alternative reality, an actual x-ray of the face of a mechanical flowerhead.

November 6, 2011

Final Version of the first Creation of Life nears completion!

At long last, this first image is almost finished. This is an image showing the result of the alchemical production of an X chromosome, created from elements. The image appears as viewed through the dust-coated lens of an ancient microscope. This image will be complemented with a mate, in the form of a Y chromosome.

August 22, 2011

Detail of New Work-in-Progress: Digital Photocollage


This is a work-in-progress that has been long in the planning but I only recently began to actually compose. It is a collage made from scans of film, all of which was photographed using a pinhole camera. Most of the negatives were double or triple- or quadruple exposed, but not all of them. The scans are then of course dragged individually onto a new common file, and recomposed.Of course, you can see the previous image below and note a single component of the above composite image.

August 8, 2011

New Work, July 2011

This is a close-up, triple (at least) exposure still-life of some objects I found in Rogers Park, Chicago, in my daylight studio. They were made using a cheap pinhole disc (replacing the multiple-thousand dollar glass lens produced in the 1980's or 1990's)on a silver-gelatine-consuming, shadow-analogue-recording dark-box once considered a standard in the professional photography industry (i.e. a film camera), way back in the end decade-and-a-half of the last century.

July 14, 2011

New Work, May 2011

This image was made in my home last May. More from the same series can be found below.

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You can access more imagery by clicking on the phrase above which says"older posts". Many additional works can be viewed dating back to the earliest posts which initiated this blog.