Non Traditional Forms of Photography
	Tamago and Hair 11x14 On exhibition June 19- July 14, 2001 PHOTOGRAPHY 2001 curated by Sarah Morthland @ Nexus Gallery 345 East 12th Street, NYC
Optiographs and Photograms Copyright 2000 Nancy Meli Walker

Human communication can be a word, a phrase, a sound, a look, a book, a gesture, and a posture. Abstraction being non-narrative has the advantage of triggering emotions randomly perhaps based    on life experience but not necessarily. Improvisation of a stroke while listening to sound generates an AudioVision. Optical Fibers and light are one of the future methods of communication. This body of work melds the human abstraction of emotion through improvisation, paper representing    the past form of documentation and Optical Fibers in lieu of the future mode of communication.

During a fellowship for Photography at the Women's Studio Workshop a body of work using Optical Fibers to react with light sensitive photographic paper was developed.   Various diameter and amounts of Optical Fibers were constructed into flashlight brushes and used to expose the paper to create Optiographs.   The creation of this work mimics a blind person creating art. The light touches the paper and then is lost until the development process.   An exploration of sound, stroke of a brush and abstract image were inspired by rhythm, tone and melody. Optiographs are one of a kind a works; there are no additional prints. The work is available in sizes 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 and 16x20.

Inspirational Music List

Walls of Sound Harmund Plane: Three Translation Links Acama Shortwave Recording 8/1999 PAST Simoom Experimenting With Household Chemicals Unforseen Events B/Side Perfume Spiral Sounding the New Violin Schwarzwald Echoes of the Forest Shoe String Symphonettes Aporias Music for Films

Ulrich Krieger Jerry Hunt Tibetan Temple Bells Nancy Meli Walker Li Chin Sung Lois V. Vierk Peter Zummo David Behrman Ikue Mori David Weinstein Karlheinz Stockhausen Malcolm Goldstein Kuroi-Mori Music of the Central African Pygmies Mark Ribot John Zorn Brian Eno