In this piece, I transferred a big photograph of a cranberry from a photo I took at my family’s cranberry farm. I printed it out huge on my laser printer and transferred it onto the film using Xylene solvent. I painted over it with some ink layers, then I decided it needed some life inside it. So I made a silhouette of a baby by pouring more xylene over the photo, and removing some of the pigment within that photo transfer. Now, it mimics the kind of ultrasound images you see throughout pregnancy, where a subtle shift of the technician’s wand creates such ghostly, near abstract images.
The title “MACROcarpon” is taken from the latin word for the American cranberry, Vaccinium Macrocarpon.