Abstract
An example of my composite graphic-photo pictures, some of which I have made in color, is 'Zyklus' shown in Fig. 1. At the top of the picture is a print of a modified photographic negative of a tree trunk that has been repeated four times; at the center is a print of a vineyard scene on the negative of which I introduced several shapes, and at the bottom is a print made by what I call the lumiere-photo technique. The latter technique involves the following steps: (1) preparing a screen consisting of a sheet of glass one surface of which is painted in a dark opaque color; (2) engraving a drawing in the painted surface by the use of a pointed metal tool or a sharpened wooden stick; (3) with the use of a photographic enlarger, projecting light through the engraved screen onto positive photographic paper. Several screens having different drawings are used in making superimposed photographic images. Variations are produced by changing the relative sizes of the superimposed images by inverting one image with respect to another, by juxtaposing images and by employing reversed (mirror) images. The fact that the results of my efforts in making a work are apparent only after making time-consuming preparations and waiting for photographic processing steps to be completed reminds me of processes occurring in nature whose outcomes can be noted only after considerable time has elapsed. I present the photograph in Fig. 2 as documentation of a 'drawing' made in nature. Part of what is seen has been provided by a natural site, and I have superimposed on this an installation of strips of glass mirrors supported where necessary by bits of string. Such photo-documents I may print together with images provided by the lumiere-photo technique, as in Fig. 1. An installation, 'Blutquelle', consisting of a composite graphic-photo picture and a construction of wooden strips is shown in Fig. 3; the photographs are documents of another of my 'drawings' in nature. Parts of the picture and of the construction have been arranged so that the combination would be regarded as a whole.
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