Welcome to the Revised edition of the
18x18"
Inkjet Prints Project
A Collection of photographs
printed 18x18" on a 20x24" paper base
(August 12, 2025)
Introduction:
The original intention of the The 2023-2024-2025 Inkjet Print Project was to create an inkjet print archive of my best (and favorite) images which I had published in my blog projects since 2011. I created my blog (TheDepartingLandscape.blogspot.com) in late 2010 with an attitude that I could dispense with the labor and cost of making prints of all my new work, and simply publish my new work on my blog in project form. I had just retired from teaching and there was no pressure to make prints for galleries or museums because the economy had crashed in 2008 and I no longer had gallery representation. Truly speaking, I enjoyed the freedom to create without deadlines or many other pressures that come with presenting work in an art gallery or museum context. I mostly just wanted to make photographs for the pure joy and love of the creative process.
But in 2022 I felt a strong impulse to begin making inkjet prints again. Ten years had passed without making prints of new work but I could print just the images that I felt were the best or enjoyed the most, and I admit that seeing the prints, especially the larger sized prints, was revealing in a way that published blog images are not.
I started the Inkjet Print Project in 2023 by making 12x12" square print versions of my most favorite (and meaningful) images. Most of my blog images were presented in the 4:3 format that I used for my digital camera. However, the need to transform could not be rejected: I decided to crop all of my blog images to the square format (this is directly related to my 1994-2000 project, Studies I & II).
I printed around 900 images, square 12x12" and collected them in twelve (12) 12x12' Books. Then I realized that this huge sprawling body of work needed some structure, some thematic organization, so with the material I had printed and collected I then created twenty-five (25) 12x12" theme-based PROJECTS .
Of course, not all of my favorite images could be transformed from their original long rectangular format on the blog page to the square format of the 12x12" inkjet prints, so after feeling finished with the 12x12" PROJECTS, I created the 16x20" Inkjet Print Project for those images that needed the longer horizontal format.
I also began making larger prints of selected 12x12" images from the 12x12" Books & PROJECTS that I felt would benefit from the larger print sizes 18x18" and 21x21"
In August, 2025, I had accumulated about 250 prints for the 18x18" Inkjet Print Project. I felt overwhelmed by the number of prints presented without some kind of formal, subject matter or conceptual thematic structure. I had done this with the 12x12" PROJECTS, and before that I organized all of my blog projects in various thematic ways. (see blog link: The Complete Collection of Blog Theme-Related Photographs & Projects.) The exercise was very helpful to me, and I assumed it might be useful to those who view my blog and find themselves faced with over a hundred projects filled with many images, and in many cased the projects could also contain multiple additional project links with lots of images.
So it came as no surprise that I decided to simplify the 18x18' Inkjet Print Project which contained 250 images, using the thematic divisions I had already become comfortable with.
(Note: Many of the old themes I had decided on were used in the 18x18" print project, but there were new ones as well. Also, the themes came after the work was made (not before). I say this to assure you that the larger prints are not more meaningful from a thematic perspective; the larger prints are for me more meaningful (compared to the 12x12" projects) because the larger prints gave the images a more clear, articulate visual voice for that they were trying to "say.")
Creating thematic collections of work help to discover and better understand my creative process. It was a revelation to see which image recurred with frequency in the many thematic grouping I had created. As you look carefully (and possibly more so with multiple viewings of the revised 18x18" Inkjet Print images from a thematic perspective) you will no doubt discover this for yourself.
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Here is the list of thematic groups into which I have placed my large collection of 18x18" Inkjet Print images. I have placed many images in several different thematic groupings when it seems appropriate:
Giorgio Morandi
Steve Lacy
Robert Ryman
Mario Giacometti
Mompou
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consists of the following projects:
(There is also this small collection of Extra-large Rectangular Inkjet Prints)
I have also included the following earlier thematic inkjet print projects in the Complete Inkjet Print Project:
Blue Angels (A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (The blog version was revised April 2023) The Inkjet prints were made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")
The Pandemic Inkjet Prints project June, 2023 Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper
Silent Dialogues 18x18" images on 20x24" paper Inkjet prints made in 2023
18x21" images on 20"x 24" paper Inkjet prints made in February, 2024
And finally I have also included these Recent (2025) thematic projects to the Complete Inkjet Print Project:
Time & Timelessness February 1, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
The Memory of Light March 4, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Black and White Photographs April 3, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Winter's End & Winter's Stones & Plants April 17, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
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Regarding viewing my blog published images:
There is in varying degrees a difference between the actual print I have made and the way it looks published in my blow. I am very concerned that you see my blog images in the highest quality reproductions possible on your computer. If you are viewing my blog projects on a Desktop or Laptop computer I encourage you to look over the following statement below--which I have included in most of my blog projects over the last two years:
A brief note about "How to Best View My Online Blog Images"
If you are viewing this project on a desktop computer or a laptop, I encourage you to read my blog explanation regarding How to Best View My Online Blog Images. In brief, click on an image once, then once again; this will (hopefully) enlarge the image and present it in a dark tonal environment at its maximum viewing quality in terms of image sharpness, luminance, tonal gradations, etc. Once you have entered this alternate viewing space you can then use your zoom-in & zoom-out keyboard or menu options to adjust the image size to your screen, and you can darken or lighten your computer's screen brightness to suit your equipment and viewing preferences.
Additional Related Blog Project Links
The 1994-2000 Studies Projects (Studies I & II were a major influence on the 12x12" Inkjet Print Project)
Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape. It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's. You will also find on the Welcome Page my several Introductory statements, my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
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