Thyroid Portrait / Knights I-VI - Studies: Pituitary Portrait/Knights I-V

Process Photo Works, b&w photograph, orange slices, acrylic sheet, metal frame, silicone, 1995

 

Left: Thyroid Portrait/Knights I-VI, 32 in. X 32 in.each, early stages of orange reaction with image.

Center: Thyroid Portrait/Knights I, 32 in. X 32 in., intermediate stage of orange reaction with image.

Right: Studies: Pituitary Portrait/Knights I-V, 64 in x 40 in., orange colored paper disks in place of future orange slices and framing.

 

One of a series of experimental process works using thin orange slices in contact with a photographic surface as an activation element. In this series of portraits the orange slices are positioned at or near where the tyroid or pituitary gland(s) would be on the knight.

 

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