This is an image for a possible solar etching digitally "re-purposed" from a small pencil drawing (below) I did in Korea,1952 of a Chinese POW waiting to be admitted to the field hospital (UN POW Camp #1, Koje-do). The title reflects a personal feeling about the transitory nature of our contact with prisoner-patients. They come, get tagged for admission (my job), then they go....
The two images are different each with its own qualities; I'd be interested in how you see them or feel about the different versions.
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Relative to the lower image; obviously the upper image gives us more visual information as well a verbal context. Thus we have not only the new visual / textural meanings with their associated aesthetics we now have verbal / poetic elements and the aesthetics that bear out within the context of that genre. The words conflate with the image to bring a richer meaning and points better to the original source of the drawing unlike the lower image that could have easily been staged in a university drawing class.
Am I correct that one point of doing simple field sketches is to be able to use them for various purposes later on? That seems to be the case here. Also, I am interested in the "solar image" technique, which I have heard of but don't know anything about - being an appreciator as opposed to a practitioner of art.
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