WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART - COLORADO CHAPTER

Prints:Bark, Big Bang, Cell life 2, Cell life 3, Magma, Water
Satellite data and images printed on acetate

Tilli and Daniel wanted to tell a story about the Earth and merge a colorful and subjective artistic view with an analytic and "accurate" scientific description. As they continued to meet and discuss the project, ideas matured and their artistic intentions became more defined. Tilli introduced the concept of the "ghost image". The ghost image is a result of printing from the same template without re-inking. It is usually a faded and less detailed copy of the original print, although often just as beautiful. When Tilli showed Daniel the possibility of using ghost prints in the work, it stimulated his imagination. They saw that if a print with a natural theme was shown next to its ghost image, it would suggest the degradation of the unspoiled world, which both Daniel and Tilli wanted to communicate about. In contrast to the stylized presentation that these prints would show, Daniel would supply realistic images; perhaps satellite data, to superimpose within the work.

Daniel the scientist and Tilli the artist agreed upon a media, an arrangement, and the content of their project. It would be a hanging of several large prints, arranged vertically, depicting in abstract form the journey from Earth to sky. Hanging next to each print would be its ghost image. The prints would be on white paper with ragged edges which suggests the impossibility of framing (i.e. containing) nature. On either side of the print would hang photos and satellite data printed on acetate. These images would suggest the "distortion" of the natural world by trying to quantify and render static what is fundamentally dynamic and ineffable.