Sopntaneous Combustion 8x8 Brush Flower by Lisa Goesling
Spontaneous Combustion 8x8.11 by Lisa Goesling 18”x18”
Spontaneous Combustion 8x8.15 by Lisa Goesling 18”x18”
Spontaneous Combustion 8x8 White Coleus 18”x18”
Spontaneous Combustion 8x8.1 by Lisa Goesling 18”x18”
I spent quite a bit of time in absolute awe watching my photos slowly come to life as a young child. My Dad turned me onto photography around the same time that he turned our basement bathroom into a darkroom. If we weren’t out photographing nature, we were either at the camera store lusting after the next best thing or in the darkroom. My folks eventually moved away so I shifted my darkroom destination to the Evanston Art Center. I’d spend hours in there watching images of Chicago streets magically appear.
I was speaking with a photographer friend the other day about our shared love of developing black and white film when it dawned on me that it was very much like the wonder that I experience as I work on my black boards.
Developing evolved into a series of work that emulates film pulled from a canister. It found the perfect home, my daughter Becca and her (soon to be) husband Craig’s.