FINE ART
The solar system has arrived. Ever since New Horizons flew past Pluto last summer, I've had the itch to make portraits of the rest of the planets in our solar system.
(Yeah yeah yeah I know Pluto's technically "not a planet" and all that, but Pluto is still Kind of A Big Deal, and so deserves it, I think.)
And so I did. Now, in all its glory, you can see the rest of the planets in the starry heavens of cyanotype.
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It took me a long time to want to touch this print. I had prepared the paper in advance, sized the negative to fit the brush strokes, and once it was printed, let it sit, plain and simple, on my thinking wall for what seemed like ages.
Read MoreThe beach is one of my favorite places to take photographs with instant film. What's even more lovely is when I bring the prints home and then work them over. Each of these is made up of two individual emulsion lifts; the print is cut open, soaked in water, and then the image slowly releases from the plastic, floating like a jellyfish in the water.
Read MoreThe summer that New Horizons flew past Pluto was the summer that I spent preparing new work for my first solo art show in quite some time. I had been focusing on the zodiac constellations and the moon, and then the spacecraft generated the first true-color image of the planetoid.
So of course I set to work incorporating this new discovery into my art work. Pluto, the god of the underworld, needed a crown.
Read MoreI really adore the night sky, the mythology that we've co-written with the patterns of the stars, and the science behind the age of light that reaches are small blue planet. As with many throughout history, the orb that will will forever catch my attention is the moon.
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