Technically, the gum dichromate print of "Jars in the Window" is now completed. The only difference between completed and finished is personally signing off on the image as done. This final print layer was restricted to the open window and most things outside. I chose this route for a couple of reasons. The density range between the two areas of light, inside & outside, were sufficient to warrant separate treatment. If a full image coating on each print layer were printed for the higher densities outside the window, then all of the color coating the interior will have been printed in permanently, during floating, otherwise, anything density range above that would have already floated off to reach said lower density ranges. That's just how it works.
The print is drying at this time. After having made an idiot's move on the test print of this image, lifting off a chunk of gum, all the way to the paper, before the print was dry. Not a lot different from sticking your finger on a red hot iron to see if it was hot. From such antics derives the thought... "What was I thinking!?" As confessions go, I have been known to make an idiot's move for reasons I am unable to fathom. Just not the same one twice. When the print is truly dried a final evaluation will be made about strengthening the two potential dMax black areas, or not. When you work on one print for weeks, decisions are made with dead seriousness.
Tomorrow should show the final results of the print. For that, stay tuned.
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