Most people overlook, literally do not see, these very small, dried, “desiccated” objects.  I realized, over 15 years ago, that the miraculous resided in the mundane, that William Blake was right when he said one could see, “…heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”.  So my quest was to transform unseen subjects into things known.  The majority of these objects are no larger than one inch.  These things are what they are but, by being so greatly magnified, they become something else, something “suggestive”, in all of the emotional, sensual, and sexual connotations of that word.

Platinum Palladium Prints and Uranotype Prints are available
starting at $2600.00 depending on the size and edition number.

I handmade all of these prints, starting with 100% cotton paper (COT 320 for pt/pd and Hahnemühle Platinum Rag for uranotypes) which I then hand coated with expensive, toxic, and ultraviolet sensitive chemistry for each process.  As these are contact-printing only processes, I made a digitally enlarged negative the size of each finished print.  After exposure through the negative to an intense source of UV radiation, each print was hand processed in the appropriate chemistry, carefully washed, and air dried.

 The subtle chamois color of the dried objects so closely resembles the color of platinum-palladium prints in most cases.  In a few others, the warm red color of the subject very closely matches the ox blood or old burgundy color of uranotype prints.  All of these very large prints resonate with the original subjects but have become new and unique objects in their own right.

The craft and technology used to make these prints span three centuries!  Platinum-palladium printing was patented in the late 1870s, the Plate Burner UV exposure unit is 20th century and the digital camera, image processing software, and Epson printer used to make the enlarged negatives are 21st century!