MIST: Experimental Development

Made In Southeast Texas

a special project by Christopher Dombrosky
with James Blaign Rambo and Kevin Clay

The photons formed in a place where gravity bent the fabric of space, a thermonuclear furnace of 27 million degrees. There they danced for thousands of years, the photons, rising slowly from the core of a star, up through oceans of burning plasma. When they finally escaped, there was nothing faster in the universe.

On waves the photons rode out into space. They’d waited millenia to take the trip, but it would last only 8 minutes. Then through Earth’s atmosphere the photons fell, bouncing off matter and richocheting into a lens of polished glass. For the blink of an eye a shutter openned, just long enough for the photons to slip through and strike silver crystals suspended in gelatin, recording their impression on a strip of plastic film. The journey which had begun in the heart of a star before the first pyramids rose in Egypt ended in the black box of a camera.

During the waning days of analog picture taking, it was discovered that photographic film can be developed using household products rather than special chemicals. The secret is in the acidity of a substance. So, in a union of art and science and Golden Triangle spirit, Studio Ink asked three local photographers to each develop pictures using a different Southeast Texas product: Pour Brothers beer, Cotton Creek wine, and Seaport coffee.

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