Here's the original raw shot. Small dried golden brown chamisa petals in sharp midrange focus while being buffeted by 25mph November chill winds. This made for a great introduction if me to chamisa, hard and dry little tough flowers pelting my lens, swirling and twisting. A dance. In the post copy above I mentioned there being three images, all originate from this one. The previous post is the megaladon digital composite build, which has been used in two much more complex digital collage builds. The one in between this raw shot and the opening build uses Photoshop to craft it into a midway stage. I guess what I'm trying to impart here is how my Hybrid works all continue to grow upwards in levels, layers, collage and montage, digital and analog in more complexity until...I end up with a much larger story, and a larger landscape. At the same time, I keep wanting to pull "Until the morning comes" up and out of its digital cocoon and start shredding various scaled prints of it to create a larger painting/collage just to create a 40" x 30" work just of it on a larger scale. I swear, one can have too much fun when you're weaving and welding from the brick & mortar analog to the digital ethereal planes. Some of the startup analog painting/colleges on cradled wood panel are getting really thick. They're taking on the weight and feel & look—of early era fiberglass boat hulls.

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Small dried golden brown chamisa petals in sharp midrange focus in a sea of blur. In the late summer of 2011, I walked for days through fields & along the roadway by my home, one of the remaining small sections of Route 66. I was collecting the tiny dried brown blossoms of the chamisa flower. I had in mind to use them in some handmade papers, made by my niece who is a wonderful hand-crafted book artist. It took almost three weeks with a Croghan folding camp saw, used as a thresher, allowing the petals & some twigs to fall into large freezer bags. Needless to say, there were a lot of people along old Route 66 craning their necks trying to figure out what I was doing as they sped by in Time. This image was made at that same time to accompany the actual suspended petals in an assemblage/collage. I was working on a series of digital composite images at the time called “Vestiges.” It was one of the most fun in years, for I could use most any imagery I wanted that was in the public domain. It was in the realm of photo-montage & in actuality was all digital. I began with a base idea of using film negatives from all eras of photographic and filmic history, welded into a mindstream, a nearly visible “current” which was streaming the small image past you. As a paired series forms in my mind, I planned to use handmade paper as both a substrate & torn materials combined with many of the film images in the digitally produced “vestiges” works. The chamisa flowers were meant for that purpose. While I did ship some large bags to Birmingham to my niece & a few weeks later received about 40 sheets of incredibly intriguing chamisa paper back, I never went forward with the sandwiched collages. A move to Arizona was emerging & all things began to gravitate in that direction. The “Vestiges” works gave birth to the Hybrid series, as did the “Chamisa Collage” works, which both are still on the idea planks of my mind for weaving together in a similar fashion in a year or so.

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