James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith collaborate in making photograms of plants, “photogenic drawings” using very much the same techniques and chemical formulas William Henry Fox Talbot used.
Plants that we either dug from the earth or collected from the sea are exposed in contact with hand-coated light sensitive paper. This organic material withers under the intense heat and light of the Arizona sun as it completes its final act of participation in the creation of its own image.
As opposed to using commercially made photo paper like Jerry Burchfield, the duo hand-coats paper with light sensitive chemistry:
As we continued to work with variations of William Henry Fox Talbot’s basic chemical formulas, we discovered that altering the variables of the light sensitive solutions, the chemistry in the paper, the intensity and accompanying heat of the light, and the chemicals emerging from the organic material, a color palette and physical presence emerged in the final print creating an ‘organic artifact’ beyond the imagination of anything previously thought of as photographic
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