tintypes

Coffins for (preserved) bugs. Using a faux tintype process (a trad tintype would have a black background - rather than my almond color - and the printed image would flicker on and off the surface as you moved the print around). I put them into these mint tins (that's the first image)...trying to mimic the traditional Victorian daguerrotype portraits with the metal cases/frames. I need to embellish and decorate the mint tins though. They are bare bones right now.

Close-ups of the prints:

tintype samples

Some more of the bug-coffin prints. I was using a particular kind of liquid emulsion called Black Magic. As you apply it to your surface, it dries quickly. In the streaky prints, the emulsion dried before I fully coated the surface. Sometimes the streaks work for the image, sometiiimes they don't.

The print at the bottom is prob my fave

Cyanotypes

Van Dyke brown print.

photogram fun

it's creepy baby elizabeth :) Dunno what's up with all the dolls. I think there's some series budding there. Note the left index finger that i probably ingested at an early age

cyanotype on kitty cotta paper - the paper renders great details, and the blue is a beautiful, rich blue (the reproduction does it no justice), but the paper has the tendency to completely fall apart in the wash. i remedied this by placing a tray underneath the paper while washing it... unfortunately this left the weird striations/indentations that you see running diagonally across the image. i may be able to get rid of these by running the piece through the etching press at a really high pressure; we'll see.

The more purple colored pieces have been toned (sodium carbonate + tannic acid)

photos from walks

Sometimes I go for walks and take pictures along the way. Here are some of them.

I'd like to do a series with abandoned/lost objects like this little guy. I found the poor robin perched on the bench, waiting for his owner to return :/

This one was taken at Costco, not on a walk.

Yea, I guess Stephen Shore did a series of trees like this in the 90s but whatever.