Places where her heart dwellsANN ARBOR—For the past five years, Ann Blackwell‘s heart has been dwelling in Ann Arbor where she has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design specializing in photography. Having made a decision to move to British Columbia next spring to join her son and his family, the artist is celebrating this place that she has called home.

“Home: An Exhibition of New Work” continues at the Pierpont Commons on U-M’s North Campus through July 27. The exhibit is mounted on the Gallery Wall on the Commons’ second level.

This is Blackwell’s most recent body of work and includes large prints of Holga camera images, digital photographic images and cyanotype prints using digital negatives.

“The Holga camera,” Blackwell says, “is a plastic ‘toy’ camera which shoots larger film than the 35 mm camera. It has the capacity to make square negatives and to expose the film more than once quite easily. The square prints are 20 by 20 inches with many of them double and triple exposures.”

Other work in the exhibit uses either infra-red color negatives or cross processed film—slide film developed as print film—for color shifts. These negatives were then scanned into a computer and printed either on linen or canvas for InkJet printers. The cyanotype prints were also made using a scanner, computer, and printer to produce the negatives which were then contact printed in the sun and developed in running water.

Pierpont Commons is open Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-midnight, and weekends 8 a.m.-midnight. Admission is free.

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