New Roll / New Exhibition Project WIP (Patreon)

Hi!

Here's the Drive upload and the Flickr gallery. You might be surprised but this is another Fuji 400/Nikon N60 roll. I have been shooting a lot, and it's all been this, pretty much.

I am working on a new project, incidentally, using (mostly) the stuff I have shot this winter. My friend Aster hosts a trans reading series here in Seattle that I adore. I asked her if I could display some art in the future at one and she said yes, so I started working on this:

This is my idea for a gallery-in-one-board. This is still a "draft" board; the idea is "Winter in Seattle", and given the very temporary nature of the space, I needed to make it something that I could set up and tear down easily and non-destructively. The plan is to display the board on an easel, with the pictures simply pinned to it.

It's actually quite fun to work on, because so much of winter is gray and wet here that it leads to photos where only one color is really vibrantly visible. I am attempting to make the pictures not only flow with one another, but allow for areas where specific colors seem hyper-dominant (see the bottom left's red focus), to emphasize how even in the midst of winter, there is plenty of color.

This section of four is the narrative/political meat of the board. The images atop are what winter spiritually feels like in these times, in this place; the images below are the rebuttal, a reminder of a spring, a rebirth, that assuredly must come someday.

If I had the ability to actually set up a gallery, I would love to hang these in pairs at a larger size, because I feel like they'd make a very good set of bookends for the project. As it sits, however, I really enjoy the drugstore-print look of 4x6s (those of you who have read Postcards are well aware how much I love small printings!)

A handful of shots off this most recent roll are probably going to be in the final project. This one I found on a photowalk to a new part of town...

...which had an absolutely splendid view and some very interesting scenes.

These images won't go in the gallery because I'm trying to keep visible sunlight out of the collection; it ruins the winter, single-color theme, but I do like them.

Anyway, I have a few more backlogged rolls to catch up on, but hopefully you've enjoyed this peek at this WIP! I'll have more updates on it soon, hopefully.

Vicki