Its a new World Tour Era!
There are two things I've always wanted to incorporate into the World Tour - lumen prints and our ancient past. Louisiana is far older and wiser than its recorded years so I have a launched a new component to the World Tour: fossils. Ok, modern fossils. Ok, lumen prints more precisely. Ok, massive artistic license..... I love the lumen print process for its magnificent simplicity - a solar photogram resulting in an impression of our World - as is. So I'll be revisiting & impressing upon many of those fascinating locales that we all know and love. (Get ready Poland, Hamburg & Lisbon - I'm coming back atcha!)
Shadowing my inaugural World Tour, I decided there was no better place to start my Ancient World Tour than the first place I could ever call home, Algiers on the West Bank of the Mississippi in New Orleans.
I wasn't quite sure how i wanted to start my fossil expedition, I just knew I wanted to make lumens from all those international locales. Yet when I teach photo workshops in the French Quarter - I often look to the past, envisioning how the French Quarter used to look as a French colony or how it looked under the Spanish rule after it was rebuilt after the fires of the late 1700's. It took a while, but it finally dawned on me to apply that same logic to my artistic endeavors. I wanted to visualize how Algiers & the city of New Orleans looked before it was even a glint in a Frenchmens eye - it was a cypress swampland, natch.
Thus begins my first World Tour experi-prints: bona fide fossils,
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| Algiers Cypress Tree Fossil, Lumen Print, 2016 |
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| Cypress Branch, Lumen Print, 2016 |
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| Algiers Cypress Fossil, Lumen Print 2016 |
Complete with swampy scenes and cypress knees:
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| Swampy Scene, Lumen Print, 2016 |
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| Cypress Knees, Lumen Print 2016 |
I could easily get lost in thought in Ancient Algiers
what with the wildlife and natural landscape
But then its kinda hard to miss the modernization.
Today, cypress trees line the sidewalks of Algiers alongside relics of our present and past.
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| Bacchus & Oyster Shell |
I'm looking forward to revisting the State of My World and exploring said relics and fossils. I'll be stopping off at antiquity here and there as well. Check back as I create modern fossils from our ancient past.
Til next time...
Til next time...
all content (c) Natasha Sanchez
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The State of My World: Songs & Photos from the Louisiana World Tour is available on blurb.com
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