CAFEGRAFIA®, sepia-color photo images made real by coffee, explore the offbeat flight paths of Central American visual art.
Saul Bolaños – Cafégrafia
Description
Saul Bolanos: A Modern Day Alchemist
Costa Rica, a coffee democracy, is known more for its number-one export than its art. It’s only natural then that the Costa Rican photographic artist Saul Bolaños decided to fuse the two and extract art from the ubiquitous bean. His patented cafegrafia ™ (coffee graphics), photo images made real by coffee, explore the offbeat flight paths of Central American visual art.
Saul Bolaños’s process is quite revolutionary for a nonrevolutionary republic. Using both powdered and liquid coffee as a pigment to make up a photo image — instead of the standard silver emulsion — he has at the same time developed a special secret chemical process to make the images absolutely permanent. No darkroom is needed. Developing an image can be accomplished in full sunlight. Having previously treated a surface of a variety of media (paper, glass, wood, ceramic, and stone) for imaging, Bolaños simply strokes it with coffee, using a brush, and presto! The subject magically appears.
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