Christy PR-RAW Demo 1
©2008 Craig Ashby
6” x 5.5”
Collage

This is the fifth demo and for the PR-RAW series. The first four being the Nadja series seen earlier here. This one has better imagery but suffers from darkness. Everything could have used contrast control.

You can clearly make out that I have tried to lighten the image through sanding. Trying to lessen the darkness of the image. It may have helped to employ a half tone to fix the process. But I didn’t come to that until the latter half of the series.

Still, it is getting closer to the finished set. These were about working out the details of a process. This is clearly on the right track and sets the tone for the PR-RAW series as a whole.

I sometimes feel that era of work is something I can’t get back to. It seems the processes are moving away from those ideas. So I just follow the muse.

Even worse is the real draw lately to move back to audio. That pull worries me. Will I ever reach that creative drive that almost feels like posession?

I think that perhaps I have bled all my magic out. My psychic powers are so latent and synchronicity based. It’s all turned into nightmares that won’t let me sleep.