The dreamlike and sometimes haunting quality of the Polaroid Image Transfers invoke the fragility of memory and the ever-changing fabric of imagination. And each image, as each moment of life, is unique and can never be repeated.
The creative process begins when the artist chooses to stop a certain moment in time with her camera.
These moments are captured in 35 mm slides, then enlarged and processed using
peel-apart Polaroid Film and transferred on heavy watercolor paper or hand crafted paper from Mexican artisans, called Amate.
The Polaroid Film is exposed and separated from its backing before the migration of the dyes is completed. The image continues to develop on the new medium, while using pressure and heat.
Then the image may be manipulated, scratched or painted with watercolor or inks.
The same 35 mm original slide may be used to make each print, but due to the characteristics of the transfer process and the physical unpredictable variables, each transfer is a unique, one of a kind image.
Patsy Daumas lives in Florida. She was born in France and raised in Mexico. She is a writer, anthropologist, tireless traveller and photographer. The diversity of her experience and influences give to her art an intriguing and sometimes surreal quality.
Her work has been exposed in fine Galleries in Mexico City, Los Angeles and Miami.
Most of the images are available for sale.
Original: $250 (US Dollars)
Giclee Print, signed limited edition: $45.00
Signed image transfers: 3-1/4" x 4-1/4"
matted in archival board
to 11"x13-1/2".
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