Sixteen New Inkjet Prints
~ October 2026 ~
for the 2023 - 2026+ Inkjet Print Project
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Black & White
Black & Blue
Black & Red
White & Gray
Tonal Inversions
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Image #1 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Black&White inversed image of an old man, in a dark coat & hat, sitting in darkness on a gray lined plinth"
(Note: an inversed photograph is an image presented in it's tonal opposites. The
original image shows a man in a dark coat and hat surrounded by white tones).
Image #2 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Black& White photograph of an old man lying in a sunlit puddle of water."
Image #3 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"A Black&White head laid upon a white-lined plinth & a Midnight Sun, with a dark line through it"
Note: inside the top shadowed eye we see a "bright sun" which appears to be related to the line-crossed sun above.
I found the following quote about the Midnight Sun by the Sufi Mystic & Scholar Henry Corbin in an article by Dave Hett:
"In some of the mystical traditions, the psychological-spiritual realm consists of three dimensions, not just Light and Darkness to symbolize consciousness and unconsciousness, but rather two forms of darkness. Henry Corbin, researcher of Iranian Sufism, describes these two “Darknesses” thusly:
There is one Darkness which is only Darkness; it can intercept light, conceal it, and hold it captive. When the light escapes from it… this Darkness is left to itself, falls back upon itself; it does not become light. But there is another Darkness, called by our mystics the Night of Light, Blackness,
as the light of consciousness rising over the Darkness of the subconscious.”
Image #4 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Blue Moonlight and shadows on a framed photograph hanging near a curtained bedroom window"
Note: the photograph in the frame is a color image; the stone is pink with a dark "eye"
laying upon a snow-covered wood plank with a red plant branch lying over it.
The title of the framed photograph is Seeing with the Eye of the Heart.
The "eye" invokes the memory of the following poem fragment:
"Everything has eyes! Everything is looking at me!"
Image #5 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"Blue gray light coming through a basement window--with potted plant--behind a Veil of plastic"
Image #6 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Blue ground fog over the dark South Meadow at sundown with a luminous blue& pink sky"
"Inversed image of white and blue snow with dark meadow plants & stems"
Image #8 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"Soft White & Gray Windblown drifts of Meadow Snow with Textured Curving Forms"
Note: this image has (for me) an Angelic Presence.
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Image #9 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"A Leaning Trellis and the light between two gray buildings"
This image, from my Angelic Presence project, is published as a color image. Here I have turned it into
a Black & White image. The form of the light in the background, between the two gray buildings,
echos the form of the leaning trellis in the foreground. Both forms invoke (in me)
the image of an angel's wings related to a visionary experience which I
have described in detail in my Angelic Presence project.
Image #10 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"Gray & White Corner of a room with a crack in the wall and a mysterious
reflection on the glass of a Black picture frame."
Note: Both the reflection and the crack in the wall invoke in me that
mystery I like to refer to as "Angelic Presence."
Image #11 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"A Black Fly on a White-textured Surface, with two lines: one dark & broken; the
other, soft and gray and dissolving into the light in the background."
Image #12 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Black & White Garage Facade, with varying dark shapes and an illuminated floodlight"
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Image #13 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"Black Cabinet and small lamp illuminating the space across from the 3rd floor elevator
in the Hawthorn Hotel in Salem, Mass"
Note: the Hotel is famous for its many ghost hauntings.
(The original image, in color, is also included in my project Angelic Presence.)
Image #14 New Prints October 2026 15x15" Inkjet Print
"Black & White Photo of a Single Stock of Corn being Illuminated,
at Sundown, in a surrounding field of dark-gray tones."
(Note: this image is one of my favorite Thing Centered Photographs}
Image #15 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"This photo--made inside our garage--which consists mostly of various gray tones,
juxtaposes a black wire slowly curving downward, and a straight line of light rocketing upward"
Image #16 New Prints October 2026 18x18" Inkjet Print
"Black & White image of a round table & chairs behind a screen covered with illuminated raindrops"
AfterWord
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In June, 2026 I began a new series of Mini Inkjet Print Projects, consisting of smaller collections of newly printed images--larger than 12x12" in most cases--which share a particular thematic idea. After the seventh project I started choosing images I wanted to print in the larger size formats--15x15" 16x20" 18x18" and 21x21"--based primarily on the strength or importance of the image rather than their conceptual or formal issues.
After I made the selection of images I wanted to print for this project I treated the selection like a puzzle that needed scrutinizing and solving. I attempted to discover ways in which I could sequence the images that were formally relevant and perhaps in some subtle ways conceptually expansive or revelatory when seen in relation to each other and possibly in relation to other images in the collection.
I had been noticing for some time an evolving tendency to write too much in my projects, and provide more commentary than necessary. And I have noticed more recently that when I would write titles under my new inkjet prints I would subtly invoke poetic ideas that indirectly were statements of my own experienced perceptions and personal meanings. Thus I decided for this project to eliminate commentaries completely and try to accomplish, in this rather new approach to writing titles, what I had tried to accomplish in my past attempts at writing project introductions and commentaries.
The titles I have used in this project are to some extent both descriptive and yet they also inhabit hidden clues or coded meanings that reveal my fascinations--not just for the image itself and the images above and below it, but also the sympathies it might have for some of the other images within the project's collection.
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All of photographs in my three-year Inkjet Print Project (2023 to 2026) were made with the intent of creating a print archive of my most favorite and meaningful images that had been published in the many blog projects I have created over the years but which had never been printed before. Also, in line with my long-term fascination with repeating the use of an image in many different contexts, and in the spirit of my love of image "re-vision," some of my previously made inkjet prints have been given a new visual life, perhaps because of a deepening understanding of an image's multi-layered potential meanings, and, perhaps after years of seeing and contemplating some of my most favorite images, I have been blessed with a renewed creative energy to transform old images in new ways.
I invite you to visit all of the Inkjet Print Projects made over the past three years, including the most recent publications, by clicking on this link: The Complete Inkjet Print Arhieve Project which I update with every new project I publish on my blog.
Immediately below you will find a listing of the completed Nine Mini Inkjet Print Projects I have published thus far since June 5, 2026. (Click on the hyperlinked titles and you will be taken to that blog project for viewing.)
"It Is Always ONE" June 5, 2026"Seeing Things" June 19, 2026Seven Windswept Symmetrical Photographs July 19, 2026"Nine Quirky Photographs" July 23, 2026"Six Thing-Centered Photographs" with An Exercise in Reading Image Juxtapositions August 11, 2026"Ten New Inkjet Prints, August 2026: a MAKOM project" August 24, 2026"14 New Inkjet Prints, September 2026" September 10, 2026
"16 New Inkjet Prints, October 2026" Black&White, Black&Blue, Black&Red, White&Gray October 15, 2026
Black & White
Black & Blue
Black & Red
White & Gray
Tonal Inversions
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As the title of this project suggests, after I noticed that I had selected several Black & White images in my initial selections, I then more consciously pursued the idea of creating a mini collection of Black & White images. But, as so often happens, the grace of my creative process insisted on opening wider the visual-conceptual field to include a more expansive revelation of my use of black . . . with Colors, with Whites & Grays, and with tonal inversions.
Tonal Inversion is a digital editing option in Photoshop that changes colors to their opposite color on the color wheel (blue to red for example), and with black & white images, it changes black to white, white to black, and the opposite tone for any gray tonality.
For me, as a creator of photographic images, one of the ways I enjoy learning how pictures mean for me is by putting one image in direct relationship to another, to see and feel what new energy is generated by that image juxtaposition. The process is sort of like listening to a very quiet--and almost secret conversation--between the two images. In the ongoing and ever changing dialogue between a pair of images, they reveal meanings that are latent and emerging within me.
Thus, I respectfully encourage you to watch carefully how the visual format of my blog's presentation of images (vertical scroll up and down) and my titles impacts the way you see and experience the images the 16 images. There are many potential understandings that can emerge within you and each and every other viewer and most especially when you become an active participant in the dialogues that have been set by my choice of image juxtapositions within the vertical visual flow of the 16 images I have recently printed. My impulse to put two images together within the sequence reveals something about me and the way I see each image, and whatever revelations this form of image contemplation generates within you will as well tell you something about your self.
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Finally, recently I have been feeling, after completing an Inkjet Print project, that "this project" could be the last one. After all images I have printed in the past three years . . . I am feeling like "there cannot be many more of my past images I want to print." This feeling has been particularly strong for me as I near the conclusion of this AfterWord.
That feeling may change. It alway requires patience and a willingness to see what the grace of my Creative Process feels I should do or not do. So, we will see what happens. My Creative Process has a "mind of its own," which I am happy to acknowledge and respectfully honor. The Creative Process is essentially about learning, growing, understanding in deeper and subtler ways and allowing grace to have its way. ~ Perhaps it's time to begin producing, in a disciplined but enthusiastic manner, projects filled with new images from new camerawork.
Also, I feel very strongly that I must work on revising my very large and sprawling project, from February, 2026 entitled Homage to M.C. Eshcher & Mannerism which currently includes over 150 images! I need to remove some pictures, reconsider how I am sequencing them, and presenting them in various thematic groupings. Perhaps I need to be a little more honest about what and how I write (rewrite) the text, in the hope of finding a better way of saying something that needs to be said, in a more brief and concise way. Writing does not come easy for me.
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This project was published and announced on my blog'sWelcome Page on October 15, 2026.
Welcome Page to The Departing Landscape blog-website which includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography blog projects dating back to the 1960's, my resume, contact information, Introductory texts, and more.
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