Got into the darkroom in the early afternoon. I went back to my first Hasselblad negative book from 1993. The combined books are a visual journal of my life from the past 17 years. It is interesting to peruse the early negs, when I see a picture I can still remember many of the details about the scene/object.
When I came across some negs of my trip to Greenville, Maine, I realized there were a number of decent ones that I had never printed. So I chose one from our travels through logging country - a pond with dead trees and rocks. I made 3 prints, but did not have time to tone, so that will be tomorrow's project.
The reason I ran out of time was because I happened to see a print made 7-10 days ago, the sculpture from Meadowbrook, laying in the trash. It was splotched with chemical stains, but what struck my eye was the tone of the statue. It had become saturated in sulphuric ocher. The totality of the print seemed decent, so I pulled it out of the trash and studied it. I then started pulling other prints from the trash, to see what the chemical stains had produced. I was able to salvage 2 other trash-toned prints.
For the rest of the day I thought about ways I could exploit this method of picture making. I believe the majority of the stains were produced from Dektol developer. Perhaps after fixing a print, I could submerge it into developer, then place it wet and flat in a trash bag. The bag will allow the paper to stay moist over a period of days, allowing the developer to stain the print, hopefully with interesting colors, shapes, and textures.
November Loss, Trash Toned Version
Printed/Retrieved From Trash 2008
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