Category: overnight notes

Every Start

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The procedure is the same, no matter the materials I begin with a proof, a test. From film or sensor, rolls or sheets. It was how I began, it is how I work now.

From the ‘index’ of images come the next round. In this project these small prints will be cut apart so that multiple edits can be made.

Then, the decision: is more needed? It usually is. In ongoing long-term projects the end is never found. At some point, it is best to consider the closing will never come.

Make, select, edit; endlessly, or until you are satisfied enough to set it aside.

Involving others in this cycle is hazardous. In most cases they will not be at the same level of understanding as you, so may over, or under commit; too loud, or soft a reaction. At this stage this project has about 150 images. It is just begun yet already has several directions possible.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be published. There is no deadline: no show, no editor waiting. Only the cold glow of the table asking:

WHAT’S NEXT?

Overnights: 2.5.21

Posted on Posted in dye transfer, overnight notes, the fora

jumbles from my dye folder

  it has passed you.. is beyond you    you lacked the dedication, the skill, imagination, maturity and self awareness, .. something was lacking  you’ve become bystanders to your own history channel    neglect, ego, and freezer burn  you’ve killed off new growth by over-harvesting the patriarchy's  platitudes  
////  ctein was a high profile, low production, solo printer... rocks, rockets and rockers  with a few hundred prints  similarly, charles cramer, also well know, has said he made around a thousand prints, mostly reprints of a few popular images. 
 \\\\\      cycle is same, with final stage being those who remain no longer make new work, even additional work. the entrants are quick exits.      become sclerotic, deadened vision and lost haptics    some generous, others not so, since they seem intent on recovering from a lifetime of failure.    posture and bark out claims of authority when all that is needed is show over 
///say  the next dye transfer printers don’t go to Yahoo or Groupio for a reason: no applicable information. there are now, new teachers: capable of demonstrating a hybrid operation; one without 3 types of non-made film, ie, pan highlight, pan mask, separation 1, as well as matrix film  OR matrix in gecko manner. 
///     particularly the high post, low print personae    
====  buy to test  buy to store    
==== buy to freeze: frostographers  
==== buy to test: analographers      
===  tiers of .. action v commitment. knowledge community.. density of terminology.  
casual  
dilettante  
diligent  
what gallery layers exist,  like sport teams? 
athletic measures  local —> global —-> record book