This series of palladium prints came out of some visits to Morocco in
1997, and Southern Spain in 1998. Both experiences produced visual
documents of people and places in amalgamated cultures that have grown
between the roots of Eastern and Western cultures. After working on
these separate portfolios, I still felt a need to weave together some
sort of visual story from the residual fragments and influence that
still haunt the route of Moorish passage.
I decided to print these photographs with the warm black spread of
palladium because I felt that it would hold more of the dreamlike
atmosphere that I was especially drawn to and inspired by. I also felt
that by hand coating the palladium emulsion onto the paper I would
present a more magical context for the image to be wrapped in. I also
liked the handmade qualities that the hand coating provided, similar to
the visual effect within the stucco spread walls and passages along the
routes that I followed.
