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09/25/2003 Entry: "art and photo play"

Didn't stay at work forever last night but snuck out after only 10 or so hours of being a scan slave. First stop was at Angefall Studios for the opening of a new show. There were some interesting works there, with the radiographic renderings of Laura Vernon-Russel being the first to catch my eye. She has an interesting concept, printing radiographs of waterfowl on photographic paper and then using paint and pencil to transform them. The work of Laura Amussen is quite outside my usual taste in art but I found myself caught in the folds and colors she'd wrought in her unusual canvas pieces. At first glance, I would have sworn they were scuplted with molten copper and brass.

Resisting the call of a glass of cold wine at the opening left my head (partially) clear enough to attempt some printing in the darkroom. I looked back over my negs and realized that I haven't printed half of what I wanted from my shoot with Marion, way back in July. I picked an old favorite and two as yet unprinted images to play/work with. I was moving slowly but did manage to get all three done to my satisfaction on that Forte Polywarmtone I've fallen in love with. They've been toned tonight with selenium to various shades of red/brown, some deeper, some subtle splits between brown and gray.

I still need to make one last swing by the camera shop after work tomorrow to give in to and test the claims of wonderous beauty from Ilford Delta when developed in Xtol. I've heard a lot but haven't seen the proof so I guess I need to work it out for myself. That's a rational excuse to go out and buy more photo toys, isn't it? I'm hoping the upcoming trip this weekend will give me a nice backlog of negs to print.