From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 02/26/03-08:07:02 PM Z
Mike,
I didn't take it in the wrong way. In fact, I added your name to my
burgeoning gummist list beside my computer--now 21 and still counting. Any
more lurkers want to speak up?
Chris (who is attempting a gouache white print from a pos and a neg over a
dark cyanotype square)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Healy" <mjhealy@kcnet.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: Gum aside
> Dave (and others...!), I hope you didn't take my gum posting in the wrong
> way. I was trying to sound theatrical and to mock my reluctance to try
> something new; but when I reread it, it does sound like a person could
> decide that I was attacking you or the gum process. What I meant to do was
> to depict my change of mind in an exaggerated tone. What I did NOT mean to
> do was to insult you or give rise to a flame war over personalities or
> processes.
>
> For some reason I have always passed gum over as a minor process. Why?
> Because some of its examples remind me of the Impressionists? To be
honest,
> I can't even say why. And this "reason" forms the basis of a LOT of
> ideology, doesn't it, in and out of alt-processes?!
>
> So when I read your email, I thought to myself, Darn it, Dave, okay. I
will
> look into this after all. And I also thought, what an embarrassing
position
> to
> get myself into, trying a thing after making such a stink against it. Kind
> of like going home as an adult and eating canned peas in front of the
> parents after all. In my post, I kind of exaggerated my own
> "kicking/screaming" part of this "conversion" process for effect. After
all,
> a suit of clothes DOES fit funny if you've shooed it away as many times as
I
> have in my mind. It would make a fitting twist, too, considering my
earlier
> stance, if I WERE won over to calling it king.
>
> Rereading my post, though, I think I should have used less theatrical
> wording. What I meant to poke fun at were my own attitude toward change
and
> the difficulty of overcoming internal resistance. That's what I was poking
> fun at, Dave, NOT you.
>
> Mike Healy
>
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