Chemigraphia II
Until very recently I had looked upon my alternative photography practices - chemigrams, lumen printing, and cyanotypes - as distinctly different processes. I had created mental boxes and neatly consigned each to their own place. I also treated these processes as something pure, using digital methods as little as possible in printing and sharing. In the way of creativity and inspiration, I was nudged out of my comfort zone by another artist who pushed me to go further in my experiments. One day my boxes broke open to a whole new way of thinking. I realized that the processes I had seen as so distinct are actually a continuum of light and chemical mark making, and that analog and digital tools could, and do, augment one another richly. If I were an electron, I’d say that I jumped my orbit.
