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Ivy passionately feels that alternative photography is predictably unpredictable, hence the absence of stasis, instead that this photography sector generates an ever-present tidal pull to image states, or whereabouts
previously unvisited. In her undergraduate days at University of North Florida, where the author-poet-photographer later taught photography, she was known as asolar queen. A professor took her aside, saying"you know, Ivy, solarization
is not the answer to everything!"

Ivy Bigbee celebrates the malleability and fusibility of image and material by subjecting various Polaroid films to the combined and alchemic, mercurial moods of subject and photographer.

Her recipe:

Push me, pull you, drain, wash, dance, plot, and dream. Sing on, Bocelli.

Regarding the recent emulsion-tinkeringNautilus,
Bigbee notes that as she placed the image on its substrate, the gelatinous emulsion quickened and swelled as to seemingly spark life within the image of an iridescent, trembling, three-dimensional marine creature. When the lift dried, the Dead Sea, salted out traces of that marine existence remained.

Ivy has also written a book (grant publication)Optical Allusions: An Art Photographer's Poems.

Polaroid Emulsion Lifts Equipment

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Polaroid Emulsion Lifts
Nautilus ©	Dewdrops ©	Starter ©	Chris L. ©
Maya ©	Hera Tondo ©	Grasshopper ©	Starecase ©
Tiger Lily ©	Floral 24 ©	Blue Pumpkins ©	Pond Horizon, Waterville, Maine ©
Rooftop Birds ©	Stonehenge ©	Monolake ©	Prince Edward Island ©
Cyanotypes
Untitled © Cyanotype on Linen
Polaroid SX-70
Calming 2 ©	White Bench ©	Westpoint Lighthouse, Prince Edward Island ©