Ongoing Fundraising - to support the making of Equivalence: Parallel Lansdscapes of western US

A selection of photographs, made with and without cameras (film photographs, photograms, & lumen prints)

As some of you may know, I attempted to do an indie gogo campaign in May and as luck would have it, managed to come down with a really bad (3 1/2 week long) case of covid a few days after the launch, which cost me half of the duration of my campaign. Despite my best efforts, I was unable pick up enough on traffic before the campaign ended. 

While yes, I could make another attempt at crowdfunding, frankly, I don't have the headspace or the time to commit to promoting it properly right now; however, I am deeply inspired to make the dual bodies of photographic landscape work (both with and without cameras) that will compose Equivalence, so for now...

I'm keeping the perks/rewards as they were and am currently fundraising (on an ongoing basis) for the making of the current (more bare bones) version of the work, to at least get things started (ideally covering the first $5-10K). 

 Discounts on these particular print offerings are only available in the context of the campaign (and on a case-by-case basis outside of it).

Your contributions will make it possible to:

• Purchase a decent supply of film/paper/printing materials and a larger quantity of hours at the rental darkroom, in prepartion of the work I will be making for Equivalence (while paying $35/hr to print).

I will be doing (4x5 infrared) film and camera/lens tests (via a gifted Graflex Crown Graphic), as well as making new western Haunted landscape photographs and San Diego Winds of Change photograms, in the rental darkroom, in advance of my pending travels. (These images will be loosly paired if need be but are essentially research for the work that I will need to travel across the country to begin making.)

• Begin traveling to the first locations (starting with New Mexico, California, and/or Colorado)/making film photographs and collecting/shipping photograms materials, followed by making the first film and photogram pairings, of Equivalence, in the rental darkroom.

*Post-travel printing costs will be addressed more specifically, as the funding begins to come in, as I'd like to avoid the most bare bones version if possible...  

Equivalence - the relaunch! (picking up on funding the work for my monograph, via Veritas Editions...

EQUIVALENCE: Spiritual Landscapes of the western United States...

Dreams, Grass Valley, CA - infrared, silver gelatin print (Awakenings series, 16x20)

[loosely paired with San Diego (aka Saturn), CA - photogram/unique darkroom print (below)]

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PRE-LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT

I am very happy to let you know that I'm very close to being ready to pick up where I left off in May 2024 (when I had to move/put the contents of my home darkroom into storage), on trying to fund the making of the dual bodies of work that will compose my first monograph, which will be published as a unique/limited-edition art object, by Veritas Editions. 

I am also very happy to tell you that I am back to silver gelatin (darkroom) printing and that I have slowly begun making the precursors to the work for Equivlance, at a private (hourly) rental darkroom I go to as often as possible. That said, I need your help to make the work for this book, which will require my ability to print more consistently, as well as travel to several locations in the western United States, where I will make film photographs AND collect materals (beach sand, ocean water, other items found in those same locations), which I will use, to make the cameraless landscapes (photograms). I will then ship the materials to NYC, where I will process the film and make the prints by hand in a darkroom and the two bodies of work will merge as one cohesive body of work, in the book. 

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 San Diego (aka Saturn), CA

Unique landscape photograph made with San Diego beach sand, the Pacific Ocean, palm leaves, and more.

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The campaign...

In order to simpify things and keep costs down, I am focusing the current campaign on the making of the work for the book; Once I am able to process all of the film, make the film photographs, as well as the photograms, I will send a selection of the pairings to Veritas for the protoype. (I will address the production aspects of the book in more detail once I can make some headway on making/printing the contents of Equivalence: Spiritual Landscapes of the western United States...)

See below to learn about the rewards...

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Koan in Blue (unique painted cyanotype and lumen/mixed-process silver gelatin print; made with the San Diego materials and cyanotype chemistry). 

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PRINT REWARDS FOR CONTRIBUTORS include:

• Colorful cameraless lumens 
• Mixed-process painted cyanotypes (for those partial to the color Blue and/or more painterly prints)
• Limited edition black-and-white film photographs
• Unique/cameraless black-and-white photographs (photograms) 
  • Print sizes start as small as 5x7 and go up to 16x20; mosaics will also be available in a varity of larger sizes.