“Tree Branch” is a pinhole photograph exposed to the sun for 6 months. These images are also referred to as “solargraphs”. During the exposure the wooden camera was also exposed outdoors to the rain, ice, snow, cold and heat. The resulting image is the combination of the sun burning a image onto the photographic paper and the natural elements. I print this image onto canvas using an inkjet printer with pigment inks onto canvas. Then I mount the canvas onto a wooden panel and sculpt and paint a frame around the panel.
Posts Tagged ‘mixed media’
New Photo-sculpture “Tree Branch”
Monday, March 15th, 2010New Photo-sculpture “Tree”
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Earth, Wind, Fire and Water at Le Bourget, France
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010One of my “photo sculptures” has been accepted at “4-4-4″, the “Fourth International Lensless” photography exhibition in Le Borget, France. This mixed media piece consists of a pinhole photograph in a hand sculpted frame of acrylic paste, gel and paint. The pinhole image is the result of a six month exposure of black and white photographic paper. During the exposure to freezing temperatures in the winter and heat during the late spring, water condensed inside the camera, forming chemical reactions to the black and white paper negative. The image contains elements of earth (in image and as frame), wind (in trees), fire (the sun’s paths) and water (condensation formed into round blotches).
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- Earth Wind Fire and Water
- 4-4-4 Exhibition
The show opens March 11, 2010 at the “Centre culturel André Malraux”, 10 Avenue Francis de Pressensé, 93350 Le Bourget, France, and continues until April 24th. Then the show travels to the “Exhibition in Centro Civic Can Basté de Barcelona” in Spain during May and June.



