Stumped. The first image is scaring me. It feels more like a interior world, like a view down your esophagus or into your navel rather than a galaxy... I was trying to zoom into it to pick up details that might help define it. Have you ever seen the short film 'Cosmic Zoom'. It's an NFB film from 1968 that had a huge effect on me as a kid. (It's on You Tube of course) The film makes you think the scale of the universe from the smallest particles to the infinite space and how they are sort of the same. These two images of yours represent zooms in and out to me. The 2nd one an outtie and the 1st darker one an innie. I really want to see these in person to get a sense of the texture... to help me figure out how you did it. The 2nd one has hints of a light fixture? Maybe the 1st one is a donut? Donutgrams. That would figure! Too-shay! Di
Hi Dianne, Okay- here it is !! Finally my response to your galaxy picture. After much debating, I am sending you these two images images as a diptych. I was in the darkroom on the weekend and finally developed the roll of 35mm that I thought would have a picture that was a good response to your last picture. But then I realized it wasn't working for me- too dry or boring or something. Then Sunday morning I woke up at 6:30am with an idea to make cameraless photos in the darkroom to make my own galaxies and subsequently, spent 4 hours of madness in the darkroom making dozens of photograms. It was fun and something I would never have tried if i wasn't trying to come up with something to respond to your image! In any case, these are photograms (!) Any guesses on how I made them? Mahaaa! I'm pretty stoked on them actually, and now have a hankering to try to use these as negs to make larger versions. I may also try to make some bigger ones in Special Processes. I like the way there is a strange intersection between the images looking like a body part but also nebulous, cosmic etc.... Your turn sista!! S
