spence munsinger
artist & painter
This was RZ67 6cm x 7cm on Kodak TMY400. These negatives are proportionally 8″ x 10″, they show beautifully without any cropping needed. a tangle of woods in snow –munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
black line white snow #8 –munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
The texture captured by 6cm x 7cm Kodak TMY400 film is just outstanding. This tree twisting up out of the snow, with the smaller more graceful twisting branches, up out of the white field of the (freshly fallen)snow. When I first printed negatives, I looked for the point at which I wanted to crop to [...]
Trees are amazing creatures, slow, ponderous, living at a pace different from animal form, quieting and quiescent in the winter, blanketed by snow, sap slowed and sluggish. The structure of bark, rough and protective. black lines white snow #6 –munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
The texture in the tree trunk, the gnarled surface where branches diverge, the pattern of white snow at the base, then the main tree and trunk then the branches intertwine into a clouded sky. black lines white snow #5 –munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
The curving lines across the brilliant white. Freehand and very simple pen and ink look. black lines white snow #4 –munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
The detail and the subtleness of the greys in the trunk of the tree make that front tree look almost pasted onto the scene. That’s characteristic of the B&W film used, in combination with D76 Kodak developer. It grabs and accentuates subtle shades, making them just pop out. The tree seems to twist out of [...]
Here’s the second image. I love the balance between the white field leading into the tangle of basically skeletal trees, waiting silently for the cold to leave so the sap can flow again, and in four months or so they will literally explode into life. black lines white snow #2 — munsinger artist@damgoodespresso.com damgoodespresso.com
