June 16, 2019

2019 East Bay Open Studios update ~ Meister & Sampson

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Dorie Meister & Jenny Sampson cuff bracelets
photo by Styrous®


An amazing and wonderful thing happened at the Jingletown East Bay Open Studios event (link below) this year. Photographer Jenny Sampson (link below) and jewelry designer Dorie Meister (link below) were showing at the Gray Loft Gallery (link below) and they joined talents to create quietly stunning bracelets.          

Sampson creates photographs using the wet plate collodion process. Her photo images are mounted on a metal surface; sometimes the image is wrong, for one reason or another, and the print is discarded. Meister says, "I was using Jenny’s “rejects” to cut up into earrings, the cuff bracelets are different.  In this case, Jenny is creating a still life tintype and then we are slicing that piece of art into unique abstractions, then I shape and form them into cuffs."     

They were a BIG hit at the open studios . . .  
     
Dorie Meister, Jenny Sampson & friends with their cuffs


The wet plate collodion process is metal, copper, aluminum, etc., which is coated with a photographic medium that is sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field to create the photographic image. Collodion is normally used in its wet form for portraiture, the 'dry' form for landscapes. This was the usual portraiture process of most professional photographers of the 19th century. Sometimes they were referred to as a tintype. The collodion process is said to have been invented in 1851, almost simultaneously, by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray and replaced the daguerreotype, an earlier photographic process.     
    
All of this illustrates that you just never know what you'll come across at one of the Jingletown Art events (link below).         
     
         
Viewfinder links:                            
            
Gray Loft Gallery        
Jingletown Art     
Jingletown Open Studios ~ 2019                
Dorie Meister      
Jenny Sampson                       

Net links:       
       
The Gray Loft Gallery                      
Dorie Meister                     
Jenny Sampson      
       
        
     
        
Styrous® ~ Sunday, June 16, 2019      


     

















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