Still Life With Pears- photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Still Life With Pears- photogravure print - The Weekly EditionOver the years I have often turned to the genre of still life when I am wanting to make work and be alone with my thoughts. These pears were brought home by my kids after having visited a farm belonging to a family friend. I was thinking about my children on fathers day yesterday and remembered this negative from 21 years ago. This hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel carbon black, raw sepia, and warm sepia inks with a dash of

Signed by the artist under image

I decided to do a Chine Collé with Washi paper by Awagami

In 2009 when my youngest daughter was 13 she was reading the "Twilight" books

I love to walk around the area in Portland

atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève

The girls came home with these Two very beautiful pears and like many other volunteer still life objects that come to me I made some pictures

Noir Carbone

All of them amazing in my mind

and Warm Red inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

Hand made by Ray Bidegain

My fascination with the way they photograph never fades

and I strive to honor the power inherent in portrait photography