One of the fun parts of my artistic practice is making pinhole camera prints. They are incredible low-tech, consisting of photo paper sealed in a beer can, with a literal pinhole used as an aperture to let light in.
Each solstice, winter and summer, I take down and process the ones from six months previous, and set up a new batch in various locations where I have a somewhat unobstructed view of the sky.
Two of the things I love about this practice is the way I really have to slow down my down my expectations of when the art will be "ready", and the reminder that whatever events are transpiring here on the planet, it keeps revolving around the sun in a predictable manner.
And then, of course, there is the curious and ethereal beauty of the images, with just enough familiar elements to make sense to the brain, and enough wierdness to transport one's thoughts to a different realm.
There were a host of intense weather events in the past six months--howling ice storms, endless early spring rains--that resulted in some of the images being damaged by moisture in the cans. I was still left with these beauties. And hope springs eternal for the next batch! Enjoy.
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