COUCH COUNT CONTINUES

Couches are coming along slowly these winter days, but the count did go up by a couple. And the creep to fifty continues at a heck of a slow pace! I think I have figured out why too: The folks at the City of Denton trash pickup are getting on IT! I passed by a couch this morning, and a couple of hours later – GONE. There is also the sun to contend with – lack thereof, and sun angle in winter. I so look forward to the winter solstice – December 21st. From there, the days get longer although it takes awhile for them to get warmer.

THE RAFFAELLI ARCHIVES

The Raffaelli Archives are starting to gather some momentum as well. I was able to get a new lab on line to help with our Consumer Prints. They are what I call GEN1 prints, and a new printer should arrive soon — in order to create the GEN1 Gallery Print Series. Working on Ron Raffaelli’s legendary images is such a privilege, and every folder of scans I open, is like opening a vault every time. I have a hard time keeping my enthusiasm in check on this project, but there is a lot of business that goes with such an undertaking.

EPSON ARCHIVAL PRINTING

The high-end versions will be rendered using a brand new Epson Ink Jet printer. I have a lot of experience with fine printing, and am excited to get back in to the high end print spectrum with a state of the art printer and images that aren’t even mine!

Couch Art Project – Only Seven Left

Denton Couch Art
Tentative logo for the book.

It’s an Easter egg hunt of sorts, finding these couches all over town. But the end is near. I found three additional couches over the weekend, and I bet this summer will close out the first FIFTY couches for the self-published title, “Couch Art, Volume I.”

These last three couches were real pieces of work, and these last two months have yielded some of the best couches since starting this project in 2017. I wonder how many UNT or TWU students could focus their minds, their determination and their cameras for two full years on a single project?

In all honest, I lost focus somewhere! When images come in drips-drabs and then torrents … somewhere along the way I lost count or lost images in the machines.

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