Falmouth Scenes
There will be a show at Falmouth Community Television in June of photographs by Kathleen Casey, Dennis Weeks and Sarah Elizabeth Murphy - “Falmouth Scenes” for the month.
The show is curated and printed by Robert Manz Studio.
The above is a print of “the Knob” by Dennis Casey, which will appear in the show.
FALMOUTH SCENES:
photographs by
Kathleen Casey
Sarah Elizabeth Murphy
Dennis Weeks
Presented by Robert Manz Studio: Fine Art Photographs with a sense of place
note: as of 5/14/26 these are the tentative planned dates
Hanging Date: June 7
Opening Date: June 9
Reception Date: June 14
Show list. Updated as they are printed.
Fourth of July Parade, Woods Hole, Kathleen Casey. 24x34 pigment ink print on archival paper. Pressed in a black shadow box frame by stretched canvas.
Mile 4. Shore Drive. Sarah Elizabeth Murphy. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by backing board.
Winter Way to Nobska, Dennis Weeks, 20x30 pigment ink print on archival paper. Pressed in a black shadow box frame by stretched canvas.
Snow on the Childs River, Kathleen Casey. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by backing board
Sunset on the Heights, Sarah Elizabeth Murphy. 20x30 pigment ink print on archival paper. Pressed in a black shadow box frame by stretched canvas.
The Knob, Dennis Weeks. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by backing board.
Summer Yard, Kathleen Casey. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by backing board.
Island Queen, Sarah Elizabeth Murphy. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by backing board.
Apotheosis, Bourne Farm, Dennis Weeks. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black frame by backing board.
Rabbit, East Falmouth. Kathleen Casey. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by plexiglass and backing board.
Gulls at Menauhant, Kathleen Casey. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by plexiglass and backing board.
Gemma on the Eel Pond, Dennis Weeks. 18x24 pigment ink print on rag paper pressed in a black wood frame by plexiglass and backing board.
Digital Downloads
A note about printing: I’ve done darkroom and now digital printing since my college days. I know how to make a good print and I know what is my favorite print equipment. I know what are the good papers and the good inks.
I have long been leery of the digital format as a threat to intellectual and creative property (so easy to copy) but I have also been stunned by its enabling power (so easy to create)
My bottom line is that all of this is mediated by the relationship between the artist and the audience. Mutual respect, honesty and trust.
I am in the process of evaluating and deciding options for making my work available as digital downloads in a responsible way.
This thought was given impetus by two recent discoveries. The graphic designer I work with, Jean Cousins has had success on Etsy with a set of digital designs she created and made available for digital download.
And, I purchased a $200 Ecotank all in one printer by Epson (model 2800) - this is new territory for me, the other printers in my studio cost $2,000 and up.
I popped a sheet of my favorite coated card stock paper, 8.5x11, into the 2800 printer and out came an archival print of one of our calendar covers that is 99% of the quality I can print on the more expensive equipment.
The lesson I take away from this is “you can try this at home- and get a good print”. This means that my audience can make a print at home that I am happy to have shown as a piece of my work .
if you can make a good print of my work at home with a $200 printer and the right paper (that 8.5x11 sheet cost $0.30), then I am happy to make my work available in sizes 8x10, 8.5x11, and 11x14 as digital downloads for you to print at home.
And I will support your efforts as much as I can without a physical visit.
As for the the other artists I publish, I will be talking with them individually to understand their wishes. We’ve all had instances of our work being appropriated without permission or compensation, so I respect their sensitivities and judgement.
- Robert
Finding my Voice again
It has been years and years since I wrote a blog, back maybe 20 years ago when that was one of the new and experimental forms in social media. Here is a link to it, on blogspot. I see that there are some recent posts, but I know that I was really into it long ago. We will see if this edition, here, can be sustained. The core issue I have decided is one of “voice”, a combination of who do I think I am, and who do I think you, the person reading this is. Or for that matter, of the many people who might take a look at this, who do I want to talk to? Without answering those questions here, I will just say, the pandemic was a circuit breaker, and it has taken me a while to feel comfortable with what voice is good for me and I hope for you.
Here’s that link to the old blog.