June has arrived and hopefully, in the next month, we’ll see some sunshine in Portland. And when this elusive sun stretches its rays into our atmosphere, my friend Heidi Kirkpatrick will have Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate on hand, ready to make more beautiful cyanotypes.
Read MoreArchana Vikram's photographic series "The Unwelcome" brings to light the untold horrors of female infanticide routinely practiced in India and is a call for action to put an end to this barbaric practice.
Read MoreI have adopted the core principles of alchemy in my work and am informed by this alchemical idea of transformation. The colors and images I create are through a transformative process of light manipulation and chemical action. One of my primary ways of manipulating light is by reflecting and refracting it through prismatic materials to capture the spectrum of color contained within white light. This color dance is further mimicked by the photographic paper itself, the resulting color is the opposite color that was used to expose it. I further explore transformation with chemical reactions. I can make an assortment of colors from the reactions of the two chemicals that are used for processing color prints.
Speed, duration, temperature, and light are some of the variables that factor into what color the chemical reactions make. I am fascinated by the alchemical process, for it is never complete, each piece will continue to slowly evolve with time, just like you and me.
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