Junk stores and warehouses are full of abandoned treasures that tell forgotten stories. Sometimes the collections of the unrelated are fascinating pictures of what we leave behind. Stale symbols and icons huddle together sadly approaching the day when no one remembers their meaning. Here they make a last stand, testing our memory and challenging us to find them a new purpose.
These images show actual settings and were not constructed specifically for this project. This is how I found them.
Bromoil Prints
A silver gelatin print is bleached with a special process removing the image. The artist then uses brushes and lithographic ink to restore the photo giving it the impressionistic and textural look unique to a bromoil. The size is 6 x 9 and editions are limited.
Pigmented Ink Prints
Original bromoil prints are scanned and printed using an Epson 7800 printer with archival pigment inks and Cranes fine art paper. There are two sizes of pigmented ink prints: 17 x 27 inches in limited editions of 9 prints and 13 x 17 in limited editions of 12 prints.