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"Farm Journal", "Hired Hand" and "Gunslinger" incorporate
pages from a journal kept by Reubin Johnson of Stephentown, NY from
1860 to 1868. During those years he records the death of both his
father and mother and the outbreak of the civil war in the same
terse language he records the planting and harvesting of crops.
For "Farm Journal", a still-life using the journal and a
tintype was photographed with Littleton's digital camera. For "Hired
Hand" a scan of the journal was combined with a photograph of
Krause's grandfather, James Simmons, a farmer from Brewton, Alabama.
"Gunslinger" uses a photograph of her father as a boy aiming his air
rifle.
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For each of the three images, the digital file was flipped
horizontlly in the 3M Cactus RIPand printed on the Encad Novajet Pro
using Encad's clear film and graphic outdoor (GO) ink. Using a
waterless planographic process Littleton pioneered, Krause created a
landscape by painting with waterbased media on a glass plate. The
painting on glass was masked with silicon and cured. The image on
clear film was transferred to 30"x36" damp Rives BFK using a 40"x70"
French Tool etching press. In a second pass, the vitriographic plate
was inked and printed over the digital transfer or digigraph.
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