Thank You Emma Powell for being part of the PHOTO⊕CRAFT show. The Print "Juggling Butterflies" is a Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype, scanned and printed digitally. "Photographers, like scientists, record facts about the observable world. From those facts, they make inferences concerning larger questions of existence. But unlike scientists, artists are free to alter those facts to create imagined scenarios and fictional worlds. In my series Specimen Collection, I use the stuff of natural science—birds, butterflies, octopuses—to suggest a strange, shadowy world where things may not be as they seem. By using a nineteenth-century process, I reference the great era of natural philosophy when specimens were gathered from far and wide ...."
~ Emma Powell Check out Emma's work @http://www.emmapowellphotography.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment