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.
Encaustic Work
Encaustic refers to the use of beeswax and resin fused to the photographic image and a hard substrate. In The Forgotten, the image is printed on canvas and affixed to a backing board and stretched to form the finished 16 x 24 inch piece. The wax surface is smooth and contributes dimension and depth to the work.
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.
Pigmented Ink Prints
Original bromoil prints are scanned and printed using an Epson 9880 printer with archival pigment inks and Museo fine art paper.
