A curious place……
Here is an old favourite from around 2006/2007. It was taken in the boiler room of an abandoned cinema in New Bedford M.A. I knew someone that owned a business connected to it so I could come and go as I wanted. Besides being a fairly creepy place, the boiler itself seemed much older than everything around it. Like the building had been built around it, instead of the other way around. It was was crumbling and seemed to list to one side like it was sinking into the floor. The pipes wen't in all directions that seemed to make little sense to anyone but whoever it was that kept connecting new lines.
I remember I was working with adding figures into abandoned spaces trying to add a more human connection to these derelict places. However I didn't wan't straight up models present, nor did I wan't ghostly shadows. So I was using direct harsh lighting sources. I would bring this old shop light that used a 500 watt bulb. It would leave the shape and contours of the figure but wash out most of the identifiable features. The first work I did with this print was using liquid light on an a2 sheet of cold press water colour paper, then used black india ink to work in the details and outlines. It was a great print, unfortunately something was contaminated in the processing and after a few years it decayed to just a brown mess. The washed out figure and white spaces will work out for an idea I have now though.
35mm - Fuji Acros 100