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About the photograph.
The Odysses 2026 is a new print from my project Feels Like Home. I find myself in a new period of my life, where once again, I’ve changed the house where I live and call it home. I invite Valerie Wolf Gang, my fiance, my future wife to collaborate on this photo. She brought up the mirror, I bought the flowers. Looking at the mirror it reminded me to a monolith. Stanley Kubrick’s The Space Odyssey 2001 was my first thought. in the
We built this motif together. This year we will also start to build a house, but at the moment, we are just gathering documents, construction plans, financial plan and gathering other information. That’s also why the scenery of the photograph is so minimalistic. It’s kind of esotheric. Form definetly reveals the path, the perspective. There is not a coincidence that the vase looks like urn.
Clarc’s & Kubrick’s monolith in The Space Odyssey represent the catalyst of human evolution. And this monolith in this art work of mine also represent a catalyst of my evolution. Of our evolution.
About the project.
The project Feels Like Home is an art projects that started in 2016, after the divorce and break-up of 21 year long relationship. I’ve moved out from the house we’ve built and in each new flat, house or space I found myself in, I’ve created a photograph of a flower bouquet. With this ritual I’ve domestivated the space and that became my therapy, finding (and creating) beauty in the challenging situation my life faced me with.
About the process.
Technically (almost) everything is handmade, from mixing chemistry for glass plate collodion negatives to coating of paper, developing, processing, down to retouching the negative with graphic pencil. This image is a contact copy from a wet plate collodion negative, printed on glass as a carbon print. These two processes are dating back in 1850’s and beside that they are the most archival processes, they are also the best photography as a medium can offer. The carbon print is transferred on glass. Carbon print on glass has a very unique characteristic. The image appears almost like 3D, because the image is made by the relief of the pigmented gelatine, meaning the blacks are made by a thick layer of pigmented gelatine and whites are made with thin layer of gelatine. I know many photographic processes and this is my favourite one.
Framing.
As a teenager I’ve done a school for carpentry. Last year I revoke my love for woodworking. I believe the attention invested in anything bear its weight. Attention equal consciousness. And although I had hundreds of exhibitions and I’ve seen thousands of frames, I feel my hand-made art deserve a hand-made frame. The art piece is available with the frame. It’s a thermally modified oak wood with teak oil and beeswax finish. The VLOG about framing.
Reference:
I, Borut Peterlin, have devoted all my life to photography and I have a BA degree in Fine Art Photography from Famu, Prague, PostGraduate Diploma at London College of Printing, I was working with Oliviero Toscani at Fabrica / United Colors of Benetton and I was photoeditor and photographer at Mladina weekly magazine for about ten years. In 2001 I’ve started Fotopub festival and I was an art director for eight years. Most of my knowledge in the 19th Century photography processes originates from workshops with Mark Osterman in George Eastman House, Rochester, USA and I also took color carbon printing workshop with Calvin Grier. I have great interest in education and although I have many seminars at colleges, I keep myself away from academic waters in favour of a freelancing career. I share my knowledge passionately either through seminars, workshops and also via my YouTube channel.
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