continuing with the thought of using gold leaf to create gilded landscape photos.
these are strange, and very imperfect, but I’m persevering, I feel like there may be something yet to come from it.
I trimmed down the torn and yucky edges of all the small studies today – to look at them more easily, and without unintentional distractions. Looking at the thing I have made is part of the work – is work. Although it doesn’t look like I’m doing much.
The idea is to unfocussedly look, letting my mind wander into possibilities and into seeing them as if I don’t know them, and also to look in a more analytical mode at what I have got – to see what I want to take forward for the next batch.
Tomorrow’s work is to try and learn something and write down what it is that I have learned. Write some things I want to try next. After that, to start again, do some more on better pieces of paper.
I’ve made a few experiments in finding out what happens when photographic paper and photographic prints are painted with ink
( the answer? it depends on the ink, and to the extent that I had expectations, its not what I expected …)
