This film was done for an optical printing independent study with one of my professors, Mike Covell, in Carbondale around the fall of 1998.  I was lucky enough to have Charles Swedlund as a professor for a photography class the semester prior and he shared with the class some of his own film work.  The film, called Flowing Waters if I recall correctly, was done in the tricolor technique.  His film inspired me to take this technique a step further.

Much of the color overlay (red, green, and blue) images you see in this film actually originated on black and white film.  They were shot with a red, green, or blue filter then reprocessed onto color film using the optical printer and the same color filter the black and white film was originally shot with.  This technique is fundamentally an experiment in the primary colors of light and how an acurate record can be recorded onto 3 sets of black and white film.  Indeed, this is similar to how the Technicolor process worked.

From an artistic standpoint this film was my tribute to On the Road, which I had read the previous year.   The college time was enlightening but temporary.  At the end I knew it would be over and I would be moving on, leaving Carbondale, and finding a life elsewhere.  The road trip in the second half of this film cronicles my first experience with this while the local events in the first half make are a kaleidoscopic tribute to my college experience.  The tricolor technique employed in this film represents a combining of the various visions for my life into a complimentary array of satisfying color.

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