Saturday Craig and I went photographing around the Preston and Franklin areas. There are several little reservoirs in the hills that Craig wanted to photograph and show me. It was good to really get out and photograph the landscape around and in Cache Valley. Not having a car can really throw a wrench into a […]
Last week Craig’s 19th century processes class that I help teach started doing carbons, and I took the opportunity to start doing them again. I finally got my tissue sensitized this week and today I was able to make a print. It turned out really well for the first one in three years. Here are […]
Monday I finally had a pretty big and very exciting breakthrough with the Lumen prints I have been doing for the past four years.
Ever since I saw Jerry Burchfields Lumen prints four years ago, I’ve been following that same vein all along. I’ve never been truly satisfied with that, as it wasn’t truly my work. […]
Here is the latest revision of the statement. I still have to make a few connections and make a better link between the Lumen print and the subject matter.
The Lumen process is serendipitous, unpredictable and liberating. Some plants record their leaves’ vein structure on the photographic paper with great detail and exactness, while others wither […]
Last week we looked at our artist statements in class, and edited my statement down to this:
The Lumen process is serendipitous, unpredictable and liberating. I never know exactly what the results will be—some plants record their leaves’ vein structure on the photographic paper with great detail and exactness, while others wither very rapidly from the […]
Building Moat at Bear Lake, 9.6.08 from Andy Duncan on Vimeo.
Here are the time lapses of the two pieces I made today.
Making Leaf Line, Logan River from Andy Duncan on Vimeo.
Wrapping Fallen Willow Branch in Leaves, Logan River from Andy Duncan on Vimeo.
I went out for a little while along the Logan River Trail here in town and after two passes I chose this spot and made these:
Time lapses coming soon.
I figured yesterdays post deserves some sort of explanation or description.
I’ve been looking at a lot of environmental art lately, specifically by Andy Goldsworthy, as a lot of the most recent photographs done at Bear Lake have a lot of similarities with Goldsworthy’s works. One of the only differences is that the alterations/sculptures (for what […]
Covering Rock with Leaves, Logan Canyon, 8.30.2008 from Andy Duncan on Vimeo.