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Thursday, January 17, 2013

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Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM

This photographic image of an independent, Aboriginal-owned gas station was printed onto black construction paper using a crude method involving exposing the paper to sunlight and allowing it to fade. Its part of Vancouver, B.C. artist Raymond Boisjolys series Rez Gas (2012).

Courtesy the artist and Catriona Jeffries
This photographic image of an independent, Aboriginal-owned gas station was printed onto black construction paper using a crude method involving exposing the paper to sunlight and allowing it to fade. It's part of Vancouver, B.C. artist Raymond Boisjoly's series Rez Gas (2012).

A great free and public lecture series starts tonight at the Henry Art Gallery. It will continue Thursdays at 7 pm through March 15 (full schedule with links to speakers), and each week a different contemporary artist will give a talk. The lineup of artists was selected by Eric Fredericksen (ere of Western Bridge), starting with Raymond Boisjoly, who lives in Vancouver, B.C. (I like him.)

The series is sponsored by the foundation recently started by Yoko Ott and Shari Behnke—The New Foundation Seattle—and it's in conjunction with Fredericksen's class, which you can follow along with the readings linked to on the syllabus. For us art nerds, the lectures and the readings should basically be required. Jan Verwoert's "Living With Ghosts" goes with tonight's talk, along with a little piece of madness by Borges. Check it out.

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Are there any photographers who can better explain how the above print was made? Does it just involve using a negative to block the light?

I am interested in the process

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on January 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Tzeachten Gas Bar, 6336 Vedder Rd, Chilliwack, BC, Canada. Still exists. In Google StreetView you can even pan/zoom (looking east-southeast from that address) and see the exact same blurry ridgeline.

Roughly 50 miles east of Vancouver and 2 miles south of the Trans-Canada Highway 1.

http://www.uslces.org/gas_stations.htm

Posted by rob!

on January 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM

@1, I have no specific knowledge other than seeing my childhood construction-paper artworks fade on the family fridge, but I think it would involve contact "printing" with a positive transparency on the black construction paper, exposed to daylight or UV, because light areas like sky would be nearly clear on the positive transparency and transmit more light-->more fading of the black paper.

Posted by rob!

on January 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM

ghosts, especially in a small town, fade from memory, but never disappear.

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