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| Gray Face |
Increasingly, news is delivered to us via smart, shiny, electronic gadgetry. Papers will soon follow the way of the dodo.
No more...
- ink stained fingers after flipping pages,
- stretching of arms and fighting with oversized sheets to read small articles in distant corners,
- chemical smell,
- rips, holes, or missing portions of interesting articles,
- rain-soaked, heavy, dripping masses requiring four hours of drying before they can be perused,
- waiting for a paper that never arrives,
- news seen 3 days prior on the Internet.
But this is what I will miss as my tablet replaces the newspaper...
The above list could be expanded ad infinitum depending on who's preparing it. In a previous blog post, I wrote of finding old English and French newspapers dated 1942-44 in my attic.
What will we find years from now? Will our old iPads still work after we try and charge them? Will they become more toxic landfill?
I think of my Spectra Polaroid Camera and slide projector that I can't bring myself to give away. I found film for the Spectra online but the cost was way beyond my budget. Too bad because beautiful things happen with polaroid cameras...
...but I digress.
The old newspapers were an unintended gift from someone who wanted to insulate our house. New modern "stuffing" is now up there but a few 70 year-old papers lay forgotten after renovations were done.
I photographed numerous pages and have been creating a series that merges or juxtaposes drawings with decaying images and punchy headlines in serif fonts. Ironically, I am integrating historical events in my digital work.
It's territory fraught with emotion.
- a morning gift via home delivery,
- the chemical smell,
- newspaper stands fresh with high contrast headlines,
- photographs of passionate people created with tiny dots (frequently walloped by the goddess of printing accidents),
- the touch and sound of unfolding pages,
- something to start a wood stove fire with,
- scissored bits of history that yellow, fade and deteriorate (I've found many in old recipe books),
- collage material and action poses.
The above list could be expanded ad infinitum depending on who's preparing it. In a previous blog post, I wrote of finding old English and French newspapers dated 1942-44 in my attic.
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| Echo |
I think of my Spectra Polaroid Camera and slide projector that I can't bring myself to give away. I found film for the Spectra online but the cost was way beyond my budget. Too bad because beautiful things happen with polaroid cameras...
...but I digress.
The old newspapers were an unintended gift from someone who wanted to insulate our house. New modern "stuffing" is now up there but a few 70 year-old papers lay forgotten after renovations were done.
I photographed numerous pages and have been creating a series that merges or juxtaposes drawings with decaying images and punchy headlines in serif fonts. Ironically, I am integrating historical events in my digital work.
It's territory fraught with emotion.
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| Pillars |
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