Hello. My name is Natasha and I produce a lot of nattie concepts. I make photographs, create lumen prints
and write songs and blogs about the State of My World. I meant to do this in 2015 and that in
2014 but now its 2016 & I realize
I didn’t do any of it. January begins my Nattie Concepts Recovery
12 Month Program. Haha. (but true..)
Over the past decade or so, I’ve created several one woman shows and
photographic series, some I’ve cataloged, some I haven’t, so I thought 2015
would be a good time to do work on the ones I haven’t yet archived into
perpetuity. Since I didn’t
get around to it then in 2015, I
think now in 2016 is even better. (works
for me) I’ve spent these first few days of 2016 cleaning shoppe making way for new works of whatever
and wherever my world takes me. (I feel Moscow TN is in my
future)
The World Tour songbook is in the works (7 whole songs!) and I’m nearly finished creating the
narrative that goes with “fLight”, my lumen print feather series. There is another series/performance
piece that bears some cataloging – Nattie and the Class of 2019 - inspired by my time as a substitute teacher in the Spring of 2007 (high school) and 2008 (1st
grade).
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| Tic Tac NO |
Revisiting the original tiny 3 ½ x 5 silver gelatin prints, I re-discovered the photos of drawings the first graders had made for me. They were just returning to the city after Katrina and had never been in school before. But amidst the stories of the experiences & hardships they faced, were their drawings, pictures that reflected the world around them as they saw it - pictures of flowers and butterflies and love. It wasnt until revisiting this series that I realized these drawings weren't much different than my own lumen prints, both artworks reflecting the world as is. I began lumen printing not long after this assignment ended, and though I didn't make the connection at the time, I'm happy to count a bunch of 6 year oids among my most inspired teachers & influences.
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| Flower (handtint) |
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| Azalea & Raindrops Lumen Print |
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| Butterfly (handtint) |
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| Butterfly Ginger Lumen Print |
Oftentimes, it appears my work is varied - Lumen Prints! World Tours! Music! Betty the Bullhorn! But in reality, the medium may change, but the expression is all the same. Sometimes it just takes me 8 or 9 years to figure it out...
I feel like there are more blogs with epiphanies in my future. (Funny that I started writing this on Jan 6th) Of course then that probably means I won't get this cataloged until 2019, but that would probably work better anyway. haha. There will definitely be more lumen prints, more songs and world tours. So stay tuned!
Til next time..
(c) Natasha Sanchez
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