94F-3 July 9

Color had always been my standard for photography. Black-and-white looked old and tired. I usually shot Kodachrome for its beauty when projected. Then I started shooting color prints because I no longer had access to a projector, and I could hold that magic captured light in my hand. Then I met Steve. He runs the photo lab on the corner, and I wandered in one day wanting to have an enlargement made. He did that, beautifully. I paid for the print, but he enlarged my experience for free with the black-and-white prints on his walls. "You should shoot these things in black-and-white," he told me after looking at my albums of old prints. This was the third iteration of the dome and arch idea. At that time this was a common occurrence. Get an idea, do a sculpture. It wouldn't come out right, so I'd do it again and get closer. The third time was it, de facto. If it didn't come out right, too bad; it's still time to move on. It continued the pattern of making each part of the sculpture contribute to the whole. I like this one; it has some wild elements in addition to the starting idea. These have turned into my favorites: head for the beach with a basic idea, but with plenty of room to play with it and be surprised. The mix of color and black-and-white photography comes from forgetting to buy more black-and-white film. You have a chance here to compare them and decide for yourself. I like both, but one thing black-and-white does is turn the sculpture into an abstraction so it's easier to see the shape. Review this sculpture Walk on to next sculpture Human Touch Museum

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