Susan Weiss joined PACC last month, and there’s lots of news to catch up on. She tells us a about herself and about just a few of her recent projects:
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I was introduced to the group by Lenore Pereira. I am a visual artist based in San Francisco and Dorset, VT, and work in several disciplines including, photography, drawing, painting and film. I have an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. In photography, I work with both analog and digital cameras, and the choice is motivated by the look and feel that I want for the final project. I began my photography career in the early 2000s doing street, documentary and NGO philanthropic coverage mostly in health care and social issue subjects. My work has appeared in print, speaking engagements and radio interviews. I teach drawing both live and virtual and will be teaching a class in Lucca, Italy, in September.
I prefer to work on several projects at one time as I feel that the work in each gets energy from the other work. Among my other current projects are Thimble Spell, a series of photographic stories created through AI into manga-style books based on incidents in my life; and 100 Tulips, an AI-influenced piece based on 100 black tulips in my Vermont garden that I photographed using 5 cameras: Leica MP, Mamiya 7 II, Holga, Polaroid SX70 and Polaroid 680.