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Panel Four of Five

"I remember the making of these images very well. If Mom or Lynne or I were in the vicinity while Dad was working, he would frequently motion us over to take a peek through the ground glass. Occasionally, when he had something special, he would invite me to sit on his stool and stay awhile. He would put the focusing cloth over my head and let me enter into the wondrous worlds he was creating. At times, I felt like a space traveler, witnessing the mysteries of the universe. Other times, it was like peering through a microscope, observing life at sub-atomic levels. Whether the view was macroscopic or microscopic, what moved me was a sense of existence, elemental and transcendent, all at the same time.

"Whenever Dad got a new batch of original slides from the lab, we would all be eager to see them. Slideshow nights were special occasions. Dad would load the projector and make the popcorn. Lynne and I would help Mom set up the screen, arrange the chairs, and turn off the lights.

"During these showings, everyone's responses were valued. If one of us didn't think the image was up to snuff, that was openly shared and almost always the judgment was unanimous. We adjusted the levels of light in the projector and played around with orientation – turning this slide up, that one down, flipping others right to left or left to right. Many images clearly had only one 'right' orientation or at least a generally preferred one. Others worked well in a variety of positions, and showing selected images in different orientations became an accepted practice of Dad's."

~ Barbara Bullock-Wilson

From Re-discovering the Color Imagery of Wynn Bullock © 2011/2015 Barbara Bullock-Wilson. All rights reserved. Published in the Spring 2011 issue of Cadillac Cicatrix Online Magazine.