Category: A Symbol Life

Finished Another Jug

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Joy and a little apprehension — every time I mix another batch of chemicals. It must be done; someday it will be all done. Even if they last, I won’t.

Out with the trash. No need to even save the jug. Shipping liquid is expensive. Powder is so much easier to ship, store, but not easier to mix, so, more chemicals are made as concentrates. Ilford chemistry is easy: dilute 1 to 4 for film; 1 to 9 for paper. For the mathemagicians: mix the film stuff 1 to 1 for paper.

Ilford hypam has been my main BW fixer for about a decade. I only use one of these a year; a decade ago I was using 5 a year. So much for the film revival, if I’m a lead case.

How: pathways to someplace

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I find a picture, one from someone whose work I have enjoyed a few years — they’ve an interview in a magazine I have no use of otherwise, but I buy it. Read it. Regret having bought it, since the interview is primarily about the “how” of the work.

So I create this word stack:

luminogram
light art
optical fiber
Heinz Hajek-Halke
Martina Corry
gottfried Jager
MMX Gallery
Katharina Sieverding

which reminds me, and may lead you toward the meaning of the work without regard to the way it was made.