Kamloops, British Columbia
Wood/Cut #1
Analog photograph taken with bellowed lens, negatives scanned, enlarged and printed with multiple passes of gum dichromate.
Image size: 25 x 19
$500 framed
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I came across these fallen trees that had been cut in place for firewood. Some looked like splayed bodies lying on the ground. Others looked as if they were marching across the horizon. I photographed them with a SLR camera while experimenting with a bellowed lens. I scanned the negatives, enlarging them for contact work on Digital Art Supply film from California.
Although the process looks deceptively simple, gum printing is probably one of the most complex of alternative photographic processes. With so many variables: quality of exposing light, pigment, paper, brush gesture and the length of development, each print becomes a unique piece.Artist Biography
Elaine Sedgman is attracted to the element of chance that occurs with alternative photography and the possibilities for interdisciplinary work that it offers. Her installation work, Itineraries, of toned cyanotype prints exposed on fabric from in-camera pinhole negatives and appliquéd on a fabric hanging has exhibited in galleries in Canada as well as in Uji, Japan.
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