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03/25/2004 Entry: "missed brown"

Missed the big brown UPS truck yesterday by a couple of hours. They tried to deliver the shipment of chemicals I'd ordered from ArtCraft. If we don't hook up today, I'll have to do a "will call" and get the package at their local center. There should be enough toys to mix up about 3 liters of Van Dyke emulsion with enough silver nitrate left to try the albumen process, and concoct a bit of gold toner for experimenting on the albumen and some lith prints.

Plans for the alt-process class final project are starting to come together. I've made a small scale mockup of the accordion book to check out some hinging options and will probably use archival and reversible gummed linen tape. I'm also thinking of increasing the size of the pages to about 11x14 inches. This should give a decent amount of white space around the 8x10 images. Total number of pages and the mix of processes is still undecided. I'll work my way through that as I start printing but expect to end up with a rather random mixture of cyanotype, VDB and gum bichromate. I've done some testing of my large negatives with VDB and cyanotype, and also managed a quick two layer gum bichromate print.

This evening, I'm back at school for a lecture by Ann Mandelbaum. I've found very little of her work on the web but the pre-talk blurb sounds interesting, "Ann Mandelbaum's work traverses a precarious edge between still life and nude photography. The slippage between genders that imbues her images belies their original source." Might prove inspiring for another light paint experiment this weekend.