A glimpse into my studio workspace, process, and projects...
 

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Editioning my solar prints for the SGCI members portfolio trade and exhibition in Portland.
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Killer collaboration in the works...
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Solar print on Nathanael's awesome handmade paper
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Mixing and testing Solarfast dyes
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Colorfield chaos and Steely Dan
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Sometimes you just need to paint.
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Lichen it?
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Experimental cyanotypes
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Lichen on the flatbed scanner
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Great find while hiking today!
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Lichen scans
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Using the new CNC router with my students to make our class portfolio title page block
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Technology rocks
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Crystals on mylar exposured to photo plates
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More testing of crystal growth on Century Plates
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Century Plate testing
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This is only a test.
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Any excuse to use the motorized offset at Smith College...
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Check out that growth!
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The specimens are growing bigger...
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Submerged.
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Drawing ant people from the top floor of the library
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So many pens, so little time
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The search for the perfect crystal growing substrate continues...
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Crystallized skull
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"It's getting even more weird in here."
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Alum crystals after two weeks in solution
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Studio turned mad science lab?!
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BIG THANKS to master printer Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studio for coming to speak to my class-- incredible night!!!
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Just messing around
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My first photopolymer plate print!
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Printing graphite transfer monotypes on the offset press
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Monotype fun
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I've moved studios! Come find me downstairs in 122.
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Took my students to draw at the Amherst Natural History Museum today... amazing things everywhere
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Playing the endless re-arrange game... I have officially spaced out.
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Some projects just don't work out... but having fun nevertheless
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Think I'm onto something...
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Playing with fabric dye...
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Ice dying paper
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Have I mentioned how much I love the UMass library?!
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My work at the Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition!
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Check out my new wheels!
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Brought my drawing students to the Cunningham Print Center at Smith College-- amazing collection!
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Taking over...
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Chalk drawings on photo backdrop paper
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