Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled (Marshall Fire: Aftermath Ashes #6238) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – It was exactly two years ago to the day that the communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. What was the environmental lead-up... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Marshall Fire Aftermath #094853) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – Two years ago communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. Lasting two days over 1,100+ homes and business were totally destroyed. The... Continue Reading →
Season's Greetings, (Version 2), Verso, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – I came up with what I thought would be a vice nice version of a holiday card for this year that would incorporate my latest interest in hand-sewing my prints. As you might imagine, my real intent and interest was in the design and sewn pattern... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglements series, #9515-4) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – With 2023 coming to a close, I need to post a shout-out that I have been writing about art and photography here since 2007, which has been an interesting 15 years of publishing my random thoughts on art and photography. I am not sure that this is much... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325 version #2) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I started to consider how I might increase the visual presence of my Last Iceberg series, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was what-if these Last Icebergs could provide us with an distress message as to what the full extent of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (The Last Iceberg series, #9200 Solo Voyage) copyright 2022/2023 Douglas Stockdale – Last week I wrote an article about working with a back-stitch on one of my Entanglement cyanotypes and how I came up with an idea of how to potentially represent the barb's along the barbwire fences. Which then led me to consider other alternatives to... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series, #6908-2) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I recently learned to use an embroidery back-stitch on my cyanotype prints for one of Last Iceberg series prints, I realized that using the back-stitch on one of my recent Entanglement series cyanotypes (above) could be ideal solution to a problem I had encountered. I had found... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale - Necessity is the mother of invention, which recently for me meant learning another embroidery design trick that I can incorporate into my cyanotype prints; the back-stitch. First came the concept that I was attempting to investigate. Up to now I have been using what I... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) copyright 2018/2023 Douglas Stockdale - While tweaking my cyanotype prints and artist statement for my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist project and I have been also working on some visual alternatives. I discussed earlier the concept of incorporating a red line as a visual metaphor for the redlining that occurred in the 1930's... Continue Reading →
The Devil's Rope (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale – While continuing to assess my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist project, Entanglement, earlier in the week I had hand-colored a couple of my cyanotypes with Prismacolor art pencils to evaluate an alternative way to provide focus on the Structural Housing Inequities in America for this project. I... Continue Reading →
