"Three Beauties"
Three Beauties
Barbara Hazen
Media: Cyanotype over Platinum Palladium
Size: 9.25"x11.75" Framed
Price: $750
Artist Statement:
MEMORY KEEPERS
The autumn of life is often more complex in reality. It is a period of life filled with loss and awareness of growing old with the potential for mental illness. My project examines these elements, as two of my family members are afflicted with dementia. I am not focusing on the painful loss of them, but rather on the fear of my own conceivable cognitive illness, and the inevitable solitude and isolation that coincides. I am photographing these personal objects that conjure up memories, to document something of my life before I may no longer know their meaning.
Artist Bio:
Barbara Hazen is a 3rd generation Californian. Her work explores the internal self and the intersection of memory and the family scrapbook, with an emphasis on cyanotype and platinum palladium processes. She received a BS from UCSB in Anthropology and later attended the California Culinary Academy. She worked for most of the next decade in several acclaimed restaurants as the assistant and head pastry chef. After a career in the culinary industry. Hazen returned to her photographic practice. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including PDN, Critical Mass, and B&W Magazine and exhibited in group and solo exhibits including Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, LightBox Gallery in Astoria, OR, The Image Flow in Mill Valley, CA, Focus Gallery in San Francisco, CA, APA in San Francisco, CA and at The Art of Photography in San Diego, CA. She lives and works in Marin County, CA.
PHOTO PROCESS
CYANOTYPE OVER PLATINUM PALLADIUM
In this process I use a single monochrome negative for both the Platinum Palladium and the Cyanotype layers. The Platinum Palladium layer of the image is laid down first onto the prepared paper and developed. With careful registration of the negative, the Cyanotype layer is applied secondly and then developed. The result is a sort of toning the Platinum Palladium with the blue of the Cyanotype. Finessing the exposure times and washing times create the desired result.
