Re: PRINT SWAP: Self-portrait as the topic?

I did a swap last year with my class at University of Maryland along with
students from University of Colorado, Boulder. The concept was "Through the
Looking Glass" because of the possibilities the title suggested and that
pinholes didn't use lenses to make on image but often showed a reflection
of the maker, either through self portraiture, metaphor or allegory. I
think this would be appropriate for our group.

How many are in the swap now. In this last swap I made 40 liquid emulsion
prints on Arches. Talk about costing too much and taking too much time. The
real cost will be in shipping each one out. Would it make sense to ship to
one location along with a check for postage and repackaging, then a bunch
of use get together and sort, repack and mail?

Guy Glorieux wrote:

> My mind is never static and it occured to me that instead of having my
> preference foran "open" topic as I initially indicated, I wonder how
> people would feel about the idea of doing a "self-portrait" for the
> print swap project.
>
> It would be nice to have a collection of people's own perspective on
> themselves, rather than just their perspective on their outer world. We
> could then put an image (it need not necessarily be a face) on names in
> the list when we open our eMail box.
>
> In fact, this could perhaps be put into a separate gallery at Pinhole
> Vision once the execise of completed...
>
> Any thoughts?

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