Super excited to announce that some of my new work is featured in the August 2015 issue of The Light Ekphrastic. I was partnered with a glorious writer, Catherine Moore, to create something wonderful. Her writing was exactly the companion I needed this summer. Please enjoy these and the other artist/writer pairs found in this month’s (as well as the archived issues of) The Light Ekphrastic.
panoramic digital image compiled from 8mm stills
original still frames
inkjet image on transfer sheet
preparation for transfer
a paint was created from blue chalk and water to extend the horizon line throughout the studio as well as to repair the damage to the image caused by the transfer
detail of the handpainted horizon line
viewers were invited to participate in the work by rubbing their hand across the line, the chalk would be rubbed off of the walls and remain temporarily on the viewers’ hands
the photographic image and remainder of the horizon line was then removed from the space
4 hour exposure kodak polymax lustre paper
detail:
detail:
found roll of exposed film left in a camera that I’d purchased from a local antique store
still images from projected 8mm films of the 1964 New York World’s fair, original film by John R. Overmiller
more images and text can be found:
I’ve been absent from posting to this site due to graduate school workload and attention being diverted to a research process blog linked at the top of this page as Research, with the Tumblr site housing most of my current works in progress. More to come in the new year as I’m hoping to rework this site and make some updates. Cheers!
Melissa Penley Cormier 
