The title refers to the two visual elements present in each large, 4x8 foot photogram*. One, the female nude (suggesting traditional classic beauty), the other, the bicycle (suggesting modern analytic structure). But the title also refers to the rather unusual fact that the bicycle is the only gender specific transportation I am aware of. Manufacturers had to make certain design con-cessions to feminize the bicycle, whose commercial introduction was made at the time of the women’s suffragette movement, and viewed by many as too liberating for the opposite sex.
Girl’s Bike
*A photogram is not a print, but an original image, created without the use of a camera. Instead, it is a direct recording of an object's shadow on photo-sensitive paper. Physical scale is thus true to its representation, and gray scale is infinitely lush, in that it is produced without the grain of a negative. My wife and I produced this series on Ilford photomural paper, mounted on Gatorboard, and processed w/125 gallons of chemistry.