10/31/24

The LARGER Rectangular Inkjet Prints & Thematic Projects 2023-24


The
LARGER Rectangular
Inkjet Print collections & Thematic Projects
2023-2044
Introduction
The impulse to make inkjet prints after many years of creating only published blog projects was, I believe, initiated largely by the three years of isolation due to the Pandemic and the feeling that the retrospective exhibition & publication that was publicly announced in late October, 2019 by the Museum of Wisconsin Art . . .  would be placed "on hold" . . . perhaps indefinitely.  It seemed that making physical prints would help give me a (false?) sense of control over my life . . . my destiny. 

(See my blog project Snapshots for the detailed story)

The series of 18 pandemic inspired blog photography projects I created between the winter of 2020 and the fall of 2022 culminated in a decision (in September 2022) to make a collection of inkjet prints of what were for me the essential images that came out of the pandemic experience.  (See my Pandemic Inkjet Print project.)  

Making prints again--physical tangible images which embodied all that I was feeling at that time--was the best way for me to begin coming to some kind of terms with that period of my life that seemed threatened constantly by the virus.  (I had struggled many of my childhood years with asthma and whooping cough and consequently I felt particularly vulnerable to covid-19.   I had felt so out of touch and discontent with all that was happening in my world at that time.And on top of that, there was Trump's unimaginable presidency which had certainly added another level of anxiety to my Pandemic experience.  

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As I was beginning the Pandemic Inkjet Print project Epson stopped making the inks I needed for my old (but excellent) Epson 7600 printer.  I tried using alternative inks which proved to be of unsatisfactory quality to make the high quality prints I demanded.  And shortly after I got the alternative inks, my old printer died on me.

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I ordered a new printer, the Epson 6000P in January, 2023 and by the time I got it all set up, in mid January,  I had to have my first of two eye pre-scheduled surgeries to have the cataracts removed from my eyes.  

A few weeks after the the second surgery I experienced a retinal tear in my left eye, then a few weeks after that I experience a retinal tear in my right eye.  ~  Despite the gas bubble that had been placed in my left eye to help heal the wounded eye, and despite the oil bubble that had been placed in my right eye, I went a head and began re-printing my Pandemic Inkjet Prints with my new printer through February and March, 2023.  ~  After the removal of the gas and oil bubbles in my eyes, I was at last able to initiate and complete the Pandemic project in May through June with my new Epson P6000 printer.  Then I went on to make the prints for my  Blue Angels project, Silent Dialogues, and then the 
Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book project (listed below).

To say the least, it was a challenging time for me and I have written a more detailed account about all this in my Introduction to the Pandemic Inkjet Prints blog project.  If you click on the hyperlinked blog title you will see 25 images all of which were published with the files I had created for the actual 16x20"prints made with my new 600oP printer.

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I have presented my non-thematic collection of individual rectangular formatted inkjet  prints and thematic projects in the form of blog projects which I have listed below as hyperlinked project titles.  

 Part I of this blog project provides Hyperlinked Titles to thematic projects, including the Pandemic Inspired Inkjet Prints already introduced above.

 Part II of this blog project is devoted to the EXTRA-LARGE SIZED Rectangular Symmetrical Inkjet Prints.

Part III  includes 16x20" prints and some larger 18 x 21-22" prints;  all are printed on a paper base of 20x24."  

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All of the images are surrounded by a tonal matte of varying sizes and tonalities.  The indicate image sizes include the tonal mattes, for I consider the mattes an integral part of the image.  Each print is surrounded by an inch or more of a white paper base as indicated under the published blog images along with usually a descriptive title, and I have added some additional textual commentary or related information under certain select images.

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The complete 2023-24 Inkjet Print Project exists in blog form as three separate blog projects:

The 21x21" Square Inkjet Prints October 27, 2024
The Complete Collection of 12x12" Inkjet Print Books & PROJECTS 
All the project before you now, beginning below with Part I:
The LARGER Sized Rectangular Inkjet Prints collections & Thematic Projects

Part I
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The Blog-Published Thematic
2023-24 Large sized Inkjet Print Projects
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Revised May & June, 2023 
The Pandemic Inkjet Prints
 
16x20"images on 18x24"paper Inkjet prints made in 2023   

Revised April, 2023    
Blue Angels  
A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl
Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")

June 6, 2023   
Silent Dialogues
18x18" images on 20x24" paper Inkjet prints made in 2023

March 1, 2024
Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book
18x21" images on 20"x24" paper Inkjet prints made in February, 2024 

(Note: the printed projects and their blog versions which I have listed (above) are in chronological order.  All of the published blog images were based on the files I use for making the new inkjet prints made with my new Epson P6000 printer.)

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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 the images 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, and darken or lighten your computer's screen brightness to suit your equipment and viewing preferences.
Part II
EXTRA-LARGE SIZED
Rectangular Symmetrical Inkjet Prints
A non-thematic collection of images
All print sizes include the tonal matte surrounding the image
with a white paper base border of 1, 1/12 or 2" added to the size of the print

XL #1 Symmetrical Photograph Deck table and chairs 21x23.5"


XL #2 Symmetrical Photograph Tent Lights behind glass window grid 18x24"

XL #3 Symmetrical Photograph Puddle, reflections on driveway 20x23


XL #4 Symmetrical Photograph Tree Branches, leaves, roof 20x22"


XL #5 Symmetrical Photograph After a Rain Storm (Plant shadows on house siding) 21x22.5"


XL #6 Symmetrical Photograph Costa Rica Mangrove Forest (Transparent Veil) 20x24


XL #7 Symmetrical Photograph Creation Dissolution - Storm Over Meadow 21x26
(This image and the next two below are from my Creation-Destruction project)


XL #8 Symmetrical Photograph Meadow & Pond transformed by fog 20x24"


XL #9 Symmetrical Photograph Meadow-Pond Fog Fantasy 21x25"


XL #10 Symmetrical Photograph Meadow Sky 21x25" (I Was Happy To See My Friend's Face)


XL #11 Symmetrical Photograph Inversed snow image with plant stems 21x24" (Mouth & Teeth)


#12 Symmetrical Photograph Sunset Lake, Vt. 18x21"


XL #13 Symmetrical Photograph Khidr - Green Man - (Angel of the face) 21x25"


XL #14 Symmetrical Photograph (Tree Trunk with radiating shadows) 21x23"


XL #15 Symmetrical Photograph 20x22"
(The light inside a dark stone in the green waters of Broad Brook after a rain storm)

XL #16 Symmetrical Photograph (Translucent Vermont Leaves) 21x24"
Note: This image and the next one below are from my Field of Vision project

XL #17 Symmetrical Photograph (Vermont leaves, Tibetan-like Mandala) 21x25"


XL #18 Symmetrical Photograph (Red & Yellow Star Flowers) 21x25"


XL #19 Symmetrical Photograph Broad Brook Pool (with Blue edges& leaves) 21x26.5"


XL #20 Abstract Symmetrical Photograph (Pos/Neg room corner) "An Imaginary Book" 19x25"
Click here to see others like this

XL #21 Symmetrical Photograph (snow drifts) Angel of the Blue Pearl 20x22"
(Visit my Blue Pearl project)


Part III
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MISCELLANEOUS
LARGE Rectangular
inkjet prints
A Non-Thematic Collection of images
Two sizes: 16x20 & 18x22 on 20x24 paper base
(The size of the print is indicated under each image following the title)


Misc. LARGE PRINT #1 Garden pool, sculpture & coins 16x20" (on a 20x24" paper base)



Misc. LARGE PRINT #2 Hudson River (Faint photograph) 18x22" (on 20x24 base)


Misc. LARGE PRINT #3 S Meadow & fog, View with neighbor's back yard 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #4 N Meadow, pond, two levels of fog 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #5 N Meadow sunset with angelic presence 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #6 N Meadow, pond, fog 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #7 Bleachers & round tables 18x22" (on 20x24")
Misc. LARGE PRINT #8 View from Kilbourn Building through venation blinds 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #9 Symmetrical Snow Circle Symbol (18x18" on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #10 Eclipsed Circled Abstract Portrait 18x18" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #11 Symmetrical Photograph Bedside Lamps 18x20 (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #12 S Meadow ground fog, blue sky, just before sunrise 16x20 (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #13 S Meadow, fog, pink sky 16x20" (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #14 N Meadow, pond & echoing cloud shapes 16x20 (on 20x24")


Misc. LARGE PRINT #15 N Pond Purple storm sky 16x20"

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(Note: The next three images (Right, Middle, Left) were made on the same morning in that order)

 (1st Right)  Misc. LARGE PRINT #16 North Meadow & Pond, early morning fog  16x20" (20x24")      
    

(2nd Middle) Misc. LARGE PRINT #17 16x20"  (20x24")
South Meadow with early morning fog, viewed through our picture window 


         (3rd Left)  Misc. LARGE PRINT #18 16x20" (20x24" paper base)              
    South Meadow & Pond, with a thin layer of low lying morning fog          
    and a sky that's about to become illuminated by the red rising sun          
     

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This project was first published and announced on 
my bog's Welcome Page 
February 1, 2024
Updated March 1, 2024 & October 17, 2024
Revised October 31, 2024


Related Blog Project Links
     
The 21x21" Square Inkjet Prints October 27, 2024

The Complete Collection of 12x12" Inkjet Print Books & PROJECTS

How to Best View My Online Blog Images with your desktop computer.  

The Complete Collections of Theme-Related Blog Projects


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 resume, contact information . . . and much more.



























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