Before I start talking about how the 3rd liquid roll came out I just want to say Catherine Murphy.....WOOOOOOOOOOOOW. I want her to call me everyday and I want to hug her for the rest of my life! Incredible INCREDIBLE human being! I LOVE how simple her explanations were for such intense paintings/drawings! Literally everyone should hear her talk.
OK. So about the oil roll. I developed them using the black and white process, although it is a color film roll, and I printed them today. Well I tried out a contact sheet. I had to use extremely long exposures (25 seconds to 2 minutes-usually exposures range from .2 to .12 seconds). The "designs" left by the oil are much more pleasing on the negatives then as a print. They are way too cutesy as a print. However! You can see the actual images, slightly, in some of the negs!!!!!!! No one was in the photo area so I will have to wait to print them as individual prints (I need the proper equipment) but they look great! I think they are photos of the marina my boyfriend used to work at and because of the damage done by the oil it has aged the images properly and not in a cheesy way, or at least that's what the contact sheet is leading me to believe. Next week, probably after crit, I will print them individually. If not then, perhaps earlier in the week like Wednesday morning. I might go in for work that day, I am not sure yet, so we'll see.
Overall the liquid roll experiments weren't a total loss, as I did learn something new by doing them, but it is definitely not something I would consider to become a part of my final thesis idea. I do still very much like the idea of destroying the film/image with elements (dirt, hot coffee, salt water, etc.) but I think I will do that on my own time. I miss my black photos, but I am having a lot of fun moving forward and I feel a sort of freedom with these experiments, less constrained. It's going to be good.
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