The 2007 CAAP grant helped ease the financial burden associated with framing images from my series entitled “Kirlian Photographs." Some images were exhibited in Chicago from October 19 - November 24 at the Packer Schopf Gallery in the West loop. A Kirlian photograph of “Olive Loaf” was also be on exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center from October 6 - 21 and offered in the benefit auction on October 20th.

The “Kirlian Photographs” series are photographs using Kirlian Photography, a process pioneered by the Russian-born inventor, Semyon Kirlian in 1939. The process uses electricity rather than light to make contact images on photographic media. It works by illuminating the electrical field around an object, which is recorded as multicolored emanations by the photographic film or paper. more...