This was done in 4 layers, first a cyanotype on the bottom, then a gum print with yellow, then with magenta, and finally a layer of black. It is a bit complicated…If you’re interested in trying this, my advice is… dont.
“nineonetwo and Savannah community members have been hard at work since early November, 2009 cleaning up the lot on MLK @ 32nd, which was once home to a beautiful garden. After a few months of hard work and determination, we have cleared out the monstrous weeds and trash, planted some vegetables and are preparing to finish the cleaning and harvest some delicious veggies.
We are beginning the art phase of the garden, spearheaded by program director and nineonetwo founder Karen Abato. Karen along with other local artists and community members, will create g(art)den sculpture from found objects and outdoor paintings.
Volunteers earn scrumptious veggies, good times and laughs!”
Meet at the garden MLK @ 32nd Street, Fridays 1pm - 6pm and Saturdays 10am - noon.
Want to get in on it? Contact at:
rootdowncommunitygarden@gmail.com
I went over there this morning and surveyed the lot:
**note: This is a small part of a much larger project I am undertaking about our food and how it is affecting our health. This small project (and as yet unfinished..this is just the “rough draft”) is to illustrate our country’s over-reliance on corn and it’s byproducts. The industrial food complex has taken things to a whole new level, using corn products and corn sweeteners in just about everything that we eat and drink, contributing to rampant health problems, including obesity and diabetes at rates that have never been seen before.
Here’s a fun stat: According to the American Diabetes Association, in children born after the year 2000, 1 in 3 will contract type 2 diabetes. In minorities that rate rises to 1 out of every 2 children. A large part of this is due to our dietary habits.
via the 2007 film King Corn:
“some day, we are going to die - and maybe sooner than we thought. The first time in American history, our generation is at risk of having a shorter life-span than our parents. And it is because of what we eat.”
“It was already clear that when the time came to say goodbye to the corn from our acre, we would never know exactly where it would end up. After the crop is delivered to the elevator, following corn into the food system becomes a game of probability. Of the 10,000 pounds of corn our acre is likely to produce, 32% will be either exported or turned into Ethanol. In neither case ending up in our food. Or in our hair. But 490 pounds will become sweeteners, like high fructose corn syrup. And more than half our crop, a full 5,500 pounds, will be feed to animals to become meat. ”
All of the following foods that I have photographed contain a notable amount of unhealthy corn products. For your information, here is a list of *some* of the names of ingredients that you can look out for: obviously corn-anything (cornstarch, corn gluten, corn syrup, corn meal, corn oil), dextrin, maltodextrin, dextrose (glucose), fructose, excipients, golden syrup, glucona delta lactone (GDL), invert sugar or invert syrup, malt, malt syrup, malt extract, mono- and di-glycerides, monosodium glutamate or MSG, sorbitol, starch, food starch, modified food starch, vanilla extract, vegetable-anything (usually means corn), xanthan gum,
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Meet my nephew…
Welcome to the family Makoa. 
Finally getting this up on the interweb…This series pairs up images I shot of Savannah, GA, paired with the Google “street view” of the same location. I will have a new website done soon and will include this and some other new projects. My blog will shrink down the image size, so click on the image to see it a bit bigger… cheers!
I hope this thing gets up and running soon. (Invites anyone???) The implications are far-reaching, I am particularly interested in the effect this could have on the creative world. Use your imagination…
“If you are expected to have some fantastic thing by the end of the semester don’t get yourself down if that’s not happening because it’s really hard to make fantastic work in three months. You have to keep going for it and look beyond school and beyond classes because ultimately it in the end isn’t about those classes it’s about your desire to make what has meaning to you.”
