Metal has a physical and tactile presence in its very nature. The
tintype in its production from cold metal to light sensitive expressive
potential speaks to this notion of transformation from latent object
to realized matter. You can hold it and feel its weight, temperature,
and surface nature of the emulsion. The coating and the mode of
display amplify its physicality, and thus the pieces become like
a storybooks or icons. We may gaze at them, touch their presence
and create our own narratives, either of individual images, or of
several grouped. Our connections may be based in our understanding
of religion or myth, or may surface from our unconscious yearnings
and fears, but the constant of interpretation is transformation:
The object is created. We gaze upon the object, we make connections,
we divine meaning based wholly on our own understanding of the world,
so that we become the storytellers – the transformers of thought.
Tintype and historic process work is available exclusively through
galleries and my representative. For inquiries please contact info@vividblack.net
