ask and you shall receive

Posted by andromeda*art on October 24th, 2008 filed in art, my sweet boy, ooglie booglie, school

last week  on my facebook status, i whined something about wanting a darkroom at my house.  well, my dear friend, Sarie, over at Got Cow Now has graciously given me her darkroom set up!!  w00t w00t w00t!!!  thank you thank you thank you!!  (i like things in 3’s)  all i have to do now is drive to the city and pick it up!!

this is awesome.  and soooooo much better than taking a class at a JC just to have access to a darkroom.  i have really come to love the solitude that a darkroom allows.  there is a sense that only you and the image exist.  not only that, but you are the reason the image exists.  you are the creator and the judge.  in my case, i am the artist and the patron as well.  i am sure that people in my current class think that i am a one trick pony.  i take HEAPS of pictures of the Dictator.  what can i say?  he is my muse.  he is my world.  and i don’t get out much.

after all, he won’t be 3 forever.  some days that is a blessing, some days a curse.

i think i’m going to teach the Dictator how to work in a darkroom.  he has a few years to go before i’d let him do any of the actual exposing, i don’t think he has the finesse to do that just yet, but i think he could be a great little tray agitator.

when i was in preschool (i think, but it might have been in kindergarten) we took a field trip to a photography studio.  at least it had to have been.  they had a darkroom and we all got to put our hands on a piece of photo paper and make an exposure.  i still have mine somewhere.  i come across it now and then.  i think i might taking photograms of D’s hands.  (i think they are called photograms.  or something like that.  it’s a direct exposure- using the object, as opposed to a picture or negative.)  i’m not sure if that visit planted a seed inside my heart for photography, but of all the snippets of childhood to remember, why that?  and will i be able to instill this love of art in my son, or will it be relegated to the abyss of lost memories?

what did you experience as a small child that foreshadowed your current life?


4 Responses to “ask and you shall receive”

  1. sarie Says:
    October 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    You are SO welcome sweetie! I can’t wait to see what you start developing. I also think it’s a GREAT idea to teach your son about darkrooms. I remember MANY a day and night in my dad’s darkroom just watching. It’s probably what started my love of photography.

    I love you!!!!

    sarie´s last blog post..Thank Those That Serve

  2. mad Says:
    October 25th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Once upon a time, I had a darkroom in my house. Then, we moved. Now I don’t have one. I miss it a lot. Something about digital just doesn’t grab me.

  3. Daddy Geek Boy Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    When I was a kid, I begged my parents for a video camera, because I wanted to make movies. They never got one for me. So I went off to film school and moved to Hollywood. Guess I showed them.

    So cool about your darkroom. I wish I had taken more photography classes in college.

    Please post more of your work here. Can’t wait to see it.

  4. andromeda*art Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Sarie- you rock the casbah.

    Mad- maybe it’s time to start scouring craigslist for a used darkroom setup!! maybe you don’t have room where you are now, and that would make me sad too. digi is alright, but i’m not great with photoshop. it just doesn’t excite me much either. plus, i love the smell of developer, which is absent in digital.

    DGB- at least you followed your dream and get to hear “The Brain” talking outside your office on occasion! i’ll post pics of my pics once i get up the energy to mess with the scanner. that’s one drawback of silver prints, you have digitize them before being able to share with far flung folk!

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