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| My Spirit Eyes/Triage - Carl Brown, VISUAL ALCHEMIST | |
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artists biography: Carl Brown: VISUAL ALCHEMIST |
| "Carl Brown is a visual alchemist. He transmutes the dross of silver halide suspended in gelatin into visual poetry. Farming crystals on celluloid in his dark room lab for over twenty years, he is Canada's master of self-processed film. His alchemical process leaves behind the traces of his involuntary becoming photo-chemically embedded onto the film. Mineral and vegetable affix themselves to a piece of celluloid, like jewels of life in a clear plastic setting for all to see. Brown stacks up to eight images on one piece of film so that the projector's light refracts through flowering prisms before sliding down the screen in multicoloured patterns. NEIGE NOIRE , Brown's latest double screen optical extravaganza is his most luminescent and dense work to date. Pure clear colours define gently undulating images that flow from the foreground to the background and back again expressing rising fear and forgotten trauma that the conscious mind must set aright." (Excerpted from an article written by Linda Feesey) Over the past twelve years I have the good fortune to be associated with Sebastjan and most of that time has been through his amazing lab Niagara Custom Lab. I can attest to the fact that Sebjastan will take on any project no matter how difficult or time consuming with the passion any artist has towards his art. That is in fact the difference between Niagara and any other lab... he makes you feel okay about... scratchesdirtreticulationtoningbleachescrossbleachings abbtierdrycrystalbleachformationslayeringchemicallayering and so on. Niagara Custom Lab is a refuge for the film artist. Carl E. Brown |
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