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Notes from the Field #4: Consolidant

Layered translucent fragments exploring pressure, contribution, solace, and assembly through salvaged text, pigment, and found botanical material.
Low-angle photograph of layered translucent paper, vintage text, blue pigment, and a pressed clover emerging from soft focus and shadow.
Low-angle photograph of layered translucent paper, vintage text, blue pigment, and a pressed clover emerging from soft focus and shadow.
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Close-up of layered translucent dictionary pages with blue pigment spreading across overlapping vintage text.
Tending to console.
Layered composition of translucent film, vintage dictionary pages, blue pigment on linen scrap, and pressed clover before separation.
The morning’s emergence: translucent substrate, dictionary pages, pressure, pigment, and found botanical material in layered relation.
Macro photograph of crease in semi-translucent dictionary paper forming a ridge-like crease across layered vintage text.
A crease becomes terrain.
Close-up of blue pigment spreading across translucent paper beside a pressed clover stem and layered dictionary text.
Solace.
A place of assembly.

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Published by:

Julie Kearns

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