Author: twrobbins

Newish works

If you recall, back in 2020, we all had to spend a little more time at home. I had some failed cabinet doors sitting in my studio from a home project. We’ll call it a measure twice, cut once situation. I decided the panels would be a good surface to paint on. I hadn’t used oil paints in a number of years, so I prepped the panels and became reacquainted with the medium. Oil paints can take a long time to dry and I struggle with any sort of continuity when it comes to making time for creative projects. That’s something I would like to work on. What developed was a set of paintings that I can best explain as an exploration of systems. Each piece is about 28″ x 18″. These painting can be purchased via my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LiveLaughLobotomize

This first painting is inspired by anatomy and organs.

This painting is based on the natural and built environment. Land use and development is something that I have a fascination with.

Isotopes, particles, atoms, oh my!

Water cycle, pollution, forever chemicals.

Microbiology, single-cell and simple life forms.

Next steps, they need to find a home. I’m going to post them on Etsy and see what happens. As much as I would like to play exhibit work and build my resume game, I don’t feel like these lend themselves to any sort of cohesive series.

Studio Vignette I

I’m falling down on the job. With the reboot of my website last year, my goal was to put up something new on a more consistent basis. Here’s a low effort post. Part of photography is seeing. Sometimes you see something while you are working on a completely different task.

Solarography I

West

East

These images were made in paint can pinhole cameras. Black and white photo paper will develop a latent image when it is exposed for a very long duration. In this case the exposures were about a month long. I duct taped the rudimentary cameras to the antenna mast on my house. These images are from some time before 2014. The streaks in the sky are from the sun (east and west) and the moon (east). I have a dozen or so cans at the ready and plan to make some more images. I’m having trouble committing to subject matter. I need to choose places where the cameras won’t be tampered with.

Developing an idea

I ran across some images from when I was starting my Anatomy of a Weekend series. Initially I was determined to stick to traditional analog photography to produce the work. I contact printed individual 4×5 negatives, arranged the resulting prints into compositions and then photographed the arrangements again to make the final print. I had to do some retouching directly on the negatives to get rid of some shadows and imperfections. The final prints lost some detail and wound up being too high contrast for my liking. These first three images are the jumping off point back in 2011, and the images below are the of the finished and installed work.