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.