UNIQUE MIXED PROCESS SILVER GELATIN PRINT - Splash (11X14)

Full title: "Splash (aka Pink, Blue, Yellow, & Brown/Goodbye Gold Street Darkroom #4), San Diego, CA." Made with Windansea Beach sand, palm leaves, the Pacific Ocean, and more. Unique silver gelatin print (lumen, painted cyanotype, & chemigram). Printed in May 2024, 11x14, Impermanence series.

LABOR DAY SALE - purchase the print by September 3rd and save $150 (retail is $1350).

[This print is UNFIXED, which means that if you keep this print in a room that gets sunlight or UV light, it will continue to change in color. I don't fix my prints, because it makes the colors look disgusting. Of course, once you own it, you're welcome to watch the colors change if that is your preference. All sales are final.]

I began making lumens in April 2024, in preparation of losing my second NYC (home) darkroom one month later, (the first time was to rent hikes, the latter to a greedy landlord who opted to gut the place when my lease ended). Thankfully, inspiration struck with the first 2 prints, which debuted less than two weeks later at AIPAD 2024, via Scott Nichols Gallery. While I sadly had to put my darkroom and most of the contents of my former apartment in temporary storage, I am thankful to have a lightbox where I'm staying in the interim and look forward to teaching my processes in person this late summer/fall.

I have been making cameraless photographs with San Diego materials for the past year, ever since traveling to the area to teach a brief workshop and being inspired to collect sand, a little bit of the Pacific, seaweed, and more, and ship it to myself in NYC, in order to begin making location-specific photograms. While that is largely related to my upcoming monograph, "Equivalence," my lumen work is essentially the color translation of my Winds of Change series, which is the series that inspired my vision for the book with Veritas Editions.

Before beginning the 2020 shutdown with an unfinished darkroom and falling in love with experimental photography, I was primarily a landscape photographer, who specialized in true infrared (black-and-white film) spiritual landscapes, made in the western United States whenever I had the budget for traveling. Four years and quite a few awards later, I am presently on my 9th or 10th new body of work since then. And over time my abstract cameraless images morphed into unique landscape photographs in their own right(s).

All of my images are equivalents or spiritual landscapes that reveal themselves during my analog printing and/or titling processes (with my cameraless work, the orientation, which is never final until the titles come to me). I've never been able to keep myself out of my work and stopped trying a lifetime ago.

Framing options are available upon request, for an additional charge. Shipping to countries outside of the US is also available upon request (I will need to price it out for you).

[This print recently debuted in issue 11 of Aeonian Magazine.]