"Eve's Last Bowls Singing", is one of two 16x20 inch prints that were in a Spring exhibition at ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, California, at 1652 Shattuck Avenue (510) 843-2527. I've already told the story of Eve's last bowls in the Techniques section, and the idea for something like this image began when I was washing multiple prints of the first bowl compositions in a large tray. The way the prints overlapped each other and isolated different sections brought attention to the pattern potential of the isolated parts. I started by cutting and pasting bits of scrap prints, then moved on to scanning the prints into the computer and putting them together there.
Eve's Last Bowls Singing:
This particular image started with part of a photograph called, "Eve's Last Bowls # 1", the first composition I did with them. I scanned an 8 x 10 print into Photoshop, selected the area in red, copied it into a new document, duplicated it...
and then flipped and rotated the two fragments to get them into this position:
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After adjusting their positions and cropping, I used the rubber stamp tool to pick up and paste bits of texture until I had the two pieces welded together.
I then duplicated this fragment and arranged the two images like this:
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Another duplication and flip resulted in this:
Putting four of these together gave me the basic image, then many more scaled down were put together to make the frame. To give the frame depth, I selected the areas that needed shadows and overlaid a partially transparent gradient of the foreground color.
With the computer file complete, the next step was to copy it onto a Syquest disk and take it to Custom Process in Berkeley, where they made a 4x5 negative, which then went to the Photo Lab, also in Berkeley, where the 16x20 print was made.
I liked this pattern so well, I used it in another composition, also showing in the same exhibition at ACCI. The second is called, "Two In One Suspended", the story of which includes a lesson on the importance of following directions.
