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Thoughts
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Thoughts, progress
Steps backward
[July 16, 2008] I brought in my digital prints and compared them to the orginals. They all look good, but in digitizing, the colors have changed slightly: all the prints are slightly more saturated and have a higher contrast than their sources. I supposed these are “better:” I think of those histogram curves on my [...]
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Thoughts, progress
Digital
[July 14, 2008] I spent the morning putting together all the sections of Ruscha’s “All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip.” There were 38 different scans to put together, for 9 sections that wll be glued together to make a 304″ inch book, unfolded. I have been thinking about how to get this printed for [...]
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Collexhibition, Copies, Donations, Thoughts
History and Future
[July 3, 2008] There was a small reception tonight. When I arrived for it, there were two new donations: a sculpture by Bryan Thomas, and a photograph by Greg Halpern. A friend wanted to paint, so I put him to work. He worked on the copy of Annunziata’s copy of Benjamin Franklin. It was his [...]
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Thoughts, progress
Working on Goya
[June 4, 2008] I was a bit tired today, and had hoped to finish my work on the Goya print and the Kollwitz print. At first, I thought my work on the Goya was going well, but as I continued with it, I became less satisfied. As I worked on it, parts of this image [...]
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Thoughts, progress
The Studio as a Gallery (or vice versa)
Thanks to Tara, the “installation” is finished; I now have a studio within a showroom (gallery). Brian made these shelves, which is where my copies will be displayed before they are traded. The announcement cards and my order forms came back from the printer, and Andrew got them out. Joe, the photographer from the Cortland [...]
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Copies, Thoughts, progress
(Re) Production Starts
Today, I began work on producing copies. I finished a copy of Magritte’s “Eye.” I also penciled out Kaethe Kollwitz’s “Self Portrait,” and one of Goya’s “Disasters of War,” both of which are etchings, but I will be reproducing as ink drawings. I tested a digital print of Kollwitz’s image, using Epson Velvet Fine Art [...]
