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Gossamer Traces

Light Work for Gossamer Trace #4
Light Work for Gossamer Trace #4
Light Work for Gossamer Trace #4
Light Work for Gossamer Trace #4
Light Work For Gossamer Trace #4

Light

Work

for

Gossamer

Trace

#4

MS 

© 2014 by  MsBjork.

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Gossamer Traces.

 

​This project, titled “Gossamer Traces,” is composed of a series of 4x5 images with transparencies containing paintings with ink overlain atop the negatives.  Each image is composed of various shadows formed and created from the iron stairs of a city fire escape.  The transparencies abstractly mimic the shadows in line and shapes are then printed as contact, thus becoming photogrammed markings.  I titled the work “Gossamer Traces” due to the relation in connotation to transparencies and shadows.  When making the work, I was thinking about ways to incorporate ‘the gesture’ of painting (because photography is painting with light) without actually altering the paper itself and this is why I chose to paint with ink on a transparency instead of simply on the paper.  Shadows, I believe, are the perfect content for the image of the photograph, because I am dealing with similar notions, in a separate instance when printing in the darkroom and using the transparencies.

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