I am delighted that two works have been selected for this exhibition – LET THERE BE – opening on September 25th at Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati. The exhibition is a part of a series of five exhibits launching the gallery’s 17th season.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule17.html
“For this exhibit 58 artists from 21 states and the countries of Armenia, Australia, England, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand submitted 247 works. Seventeen works by 12 artists from 8 states, and the countries of Armenia, England, and Italy were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication.”
These images were created from the reclaimed negative of instant print, peel-apart film (old Polaroid type). The negative portion is normally not re-usable and discarded, but if something has a semblance of an image on it I’ll use it somehow. The prints didn’t really work due to light fogging or poor processing, so I did the reclaiming some time later just as an exercise so was a bit sloppy, dismissed them and put them away.
Come lock down, sorting through my negs, I found them, scanned them and got a sort of funky, interesting image, with stains from the dried chemical goop, colour shifts, scratches and bleach marks. Shortly after, I received the late call extension for this exhibition and from the theme these images immediately came to mind.
It was hard work getting any sort of colour balance from the material when scanning but from the result felt that they were something special.
apparent failure + serendipitous events = positive outcome
LET THERE BE.
Photo-based Art About Tangibility
Lost
