Looking at one photograph at a time
Entanglement: Transformation 0356-4-8, copyright 2023/2024 Douglas Stockdale – My practice of utilizing a print weave of my cyanotypes continues to be a a creative journey. When I began the weave methodology earlier this year, my practice was pretty straight forward as to the weaving process that resulted in a uniform mosaic pattern. Since I was just starting... Continue Reading →
Entanglement: Transformation 43716-1, copyright 2023/2024 Douglas Stockdale – Sometimes, one thing leads to another. Maybe the endless story of creative journeys, eh? The first time I created a print weave from my Entanglement series, I did not know where this might lead to. I will have to admit, the first time I did the hand embroidery on... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series, No. 8847-1) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale – After realizing that my classic cyanotype pre-made chemicals have an expiration, I have spent the majority of January reprinting many of earlier cyanotype prints for my Entanglement series with 'fresh' solutions. Last week, while using another pair of classic cyanotype chemicals (solutions A&B) that I purchased last... 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 (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 →
Awareness (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Cool! Today is World Cyanotype Day (last Saturday of September, each year), an alternative photographic process discovered in 1843 by Sir John Herschel that utilizes the sun's UV bandwidth to make (blue) prints. Hard to believe I stated experimenting with the cyanotype printing process just one year... Continue Reading →
Gatekeeper (Entanglement series) 2018/2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - A wonderful start for the week when I was reading a Facebook shout out by a friend of mine, who listed me in her post about her making the first cut of the top 200 Finalist for this years Critical Mass. hmmmmm?? So intrigued, I check it... Continue Reading →
Camouflage #2, (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Cyanotype print from digital negative, the second titled Camouflage from this same series. Photographed this site last month with a 50mm Distagon on my Hasselblad using expired Ektar 100 (2019) 120 film on a decommissioned WWII/Korean War practice Bombing Range in Southern California. As a note, I... Continue Reading →
Remnant (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale – I am publishing this on the occasion of Juneteenth, a relatively new government holiday in the United States, but celebrated by African Americans for many years. "It commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans following the Civil War. Deriving its name from combining June and nineteenth, it is... Continue Reading →
Complication (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am taking a slight pause for a mid-year reassessment of where I am and where I am going. Not about making drastic new directions but just determining if a slight tweak in my plans going forward are warranted. I was doing a quick vin diagram of... Continue Reading →
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