Artist Statement
Standing as the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments, I believe these symbolic trees will take on a greater significance, especially at a time when our focus is directed at finding better ways to live with the environment, celebrating the wonders of nature that have survived throughout the centuries. By feeling a larger sense of time, developing a relationship with the natural world, we carry that awareness with us as it becomes a part of who we are. I can not imagine a better way to commemorate the lives of the world’s most dramatic trees, many which are in danger of destruction, than by exhibiting their portraits
Process Statement
The process I use for exhibition prints is platinum/palladium printing.
By using the longest lasting photographic process, I hope to speak
about survival, not only of man and nature’s but to photography’s survival as well. For each print I mix ground platinum and palladium metals with iron oxide, making a tincture that is hand-coated onto heavy watercolor paper and exposed to light. With this process the metals are actually embedded into the paper. A platinum print can last for centuries, drawing on the common theme of time and survival, pairing photographic subject and process.
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