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Midge Battelle was born in Worcester, MA in 1945. For the past 55 years she has mostly lived and worked in Provincetown, where she currently resides. A graduate of Greenfield Community College, Battelle went on to receive a BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art on 1988. She works in the mediums photography and painting, and has been active in the Provincetown arts community for 30 plus years, exhibiting regularly, teaching, curating, and as a gallerist. Battelle's work is in private, museum, and corporate colletions. For the past few years she have been making pictures using the mid-19th century Cyanotype photographic process. Exposing with the sun, I employ both natural and found objects as well as traditional negatives as light resists; occasionally other media are added on to the print.
"Everything Is Everything: Intuition, serendipity, curiosity, and purpose run through the new Cyanotype work like a rogue liminal thread. Inspiration from unexpected sources like the slanting shadows of window frames in morning light moving s slightly across the white studio wall. Angular yet also soft shapes that became drawings in real time and then next moved through the Cyanotype process. The images here are connected and interwoven through spirith and the altering of process itself with an extemporaneous mix of spices, salts, vinegar, soap suds, plastic wrap, et al, added onto the traditional Syanotype chemistry. A blend of elementals, feellings, energies, wonder, and blind faith... in the place where everything is everything."Contact Midge: midgebattelle@gmail.com
Midge Battelle (in the middle) with Berta Walker (left, sitting), Suzanne Harding and Lisa Ventre (standing, right). Red Inn, Provincetown West End.
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