Polaroid transfers have always been one-of-a-kind originals, as the derivatives they are of the polaroids that would come out of the camera and you’d have to wait for the chemicals to do their thing and develop the image.

Here, the polaroid is opened-up mid-way so the image can be transfered to (in this case, watercolor) paper, making it’s own kind of one-of-a-kind original.

On top of it, this type of film and camera are no longer being made, so each physical, tangible, unique piece of art created is soon going to be part of an extinct expression as all else continues to unfold.

The image is a detail taken of a stone bodhisattva (unconditionally-loving being) i encountered many moons (decades) ago while traveling in Myanma (Burma). This image is one of 6 prints made using this image for a single packet of film dated to the early 1980’s.

The print itself is 5” x 7”, created on fine watercolor paper, with its current home depicted in the Italian wooden frame shown in the gallery.

May the image activate what is real, meaningful, sacred, and peaceful in your realm.

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