So I spent some time soaking some other prints in the ocean water. I love the way this is altering the prints. As time moves forward I am soaking them individually rather than multiples at a time as well as floating them on top of the water.
Either way I feel that the spirit and theme of the work is working well together. I really am altering the representation of the thing that they are of.
So along the same lines of The Composted Prints , I am interested in altering the prints after they are printed. This was a set I did during one of my frequant trips to Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, Ca. I place I draw a lot of centering and calm from. I decided months ago to allow the peace in my mind, the meditation and connection to take photos.
I took a lot of photos this trip never changing focus or any camera setting during the adventure. The question was what to do with these photos after ward. I started with
Tides , After a while a was unhappy with these images and reedited the photos and produced a different look. While I enjoy this image I wanted something more, I felt that the images were not the thing that I have found so consoling, but simply a representation of such. So I began looking to it in a different way.
I made prints of the Individual images in the larger piece. At 5×5 they are not large but big enough to take notice. This last weekend I spent some meditative time at the location and collected some of the tide waters as i was there. After coming home in the evening with a jar full of ocean water, I shoved 4 of the prints into the salted water. Forty Eight hours passed with no changes to the images, and i was beginning to thing that this would be an exercise in idea rather than physical alteration.
I awoke this morning to sudden and noticeable change, there was cyan flecks floating in the ocean water and the prints had been forever changes to the one of a kind images.
Jerry Slough Photography 