everydaydreams
I made everydaydreams in my bathroom with ten rolls of Fuji 400 film, rusted metal, wood, salt, colored lights, my body, and a contraption that let me expose each frame individually.
Heat, cold, pressure, and light.
Reticulation cracked the emulsion with very hot and cold water. Frottage transferred impressions from metal, salt, skin, and wood. I also exposed the film to different colors and strengths of light.
Then I pulled out the whole roll.
I began one frame at a time, with meticulous notes. After a roll or two, I started exposing all 36 frames at once. Walgreens processed the film. The technician looked at the blank, fuzzy images and asked what I had done wrong. I told him, “I don’t know. Maybe I should take a photography class.”
Keep the marks.
I scanned the images with the strongest geometric and graphic impressions, adjusted the contrast, and removed blown-out pixels without erasing the marks made by reticulation and frottage. I wanted the images to feel more like paintings: studies in color, form, and texture that could hold both the grace and abrasions of everyday life.
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