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ALIGNMENTS

Stonehenge Winter Solstice Sunset alignment from the Heel Stone calls across the year to the Chartres Cathedral Labyrinth summer solstice sun dagger. Turning portals revealed, ancient harmonic resonance, planetary sacred geometry, trans-time communion and communication.
Composited image from original photographs.

STONEHENGE CIPHERS

Concise geometric patterns incised into a stone orb 5,000 years ago depicts maps of the prehistoric psyche, pathways of power, waves of Wyrd. This palm sized orb was left in the far north of Britain, a rare survivor of symbolic writing from the Neolithic culture of megalith builders. Raven, messenger bird of the dead, sits watching the living at Stonehenge.
Composited image from 5 photographs.

CHARTRES MARYS
Notre Dame Cathedral, Chartres France

Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière de Chartres Blue Virgin, enshrined Sancta Camisia Veil Relic, Mary of the Pillar, Mary of the Underground, Black Madonnas, Mary Enthroned Fresco Our Lady in the Crypt, Medieval Pilgrimage Medallions, Labyrinth.
Composited image from 13 transparencies from 2 multi-week pilgrimages.

GAVRINIS ISLAND TOMB
Brittany, France

Cairn de Gavrinis Passage Grave, the largest and most decorated tomb in Neolithic Europe with 29 6' high menhirs carved with labyrinthine fingerprints. This tomb/shrine/sanctuary in use by the same family for hundreds of years. Built on a hilltop c. 3400 bc near the stone rows of Carnac, the sea rose and it is now an island in the Gulf of Morbihan.
Composited image from 6 photographs.

ST. MARY REDCLIFFE LABYRINTHS
Bristol, England

Twelve hundred unique ceiling bosses dazzle the 14th century St. Mary Redcliffe parish church. Gilded designs include noble crests, dragons, a green man, geometric designs, and a labyrinth. Bombed in WWII, the medieval city waterworks were restored in 1984 and emerge in a fountain celebrating the boss labyrinth design recreated in brick and flowing water.
Composited image from 18 photographs.

SAINT-QUENTIN Aisne-Picardy, France

A Seven Pointed Star invites pilgrims to enter the pavement stone labyrinth in the nave of the Basilica of Saint-Quentin. Copied from Chartres and Amiens, the labyrinth was laid in 1495 when the flying buttress transept was built to support the sagging towering glass walls.
Composited image from 10 photographs.

BAYEUX Normandy, France

A 14th century drawing of a delicate glazed red tile labyrinth is posted outside the normally locked Chapter House of Notre-Dame Cathedral. A Black Madonna sits enthroned beneath rare surviving medieval windows; all colored glass destroyed in war was replaced by clear glass in remembrance. A recently rediscovered crypt hosts musical angels.
Composited image from 11 photographs.

AMIENS Somme, France

The bold floor tiles of Notre-Dame Cathedral Amiens was laid in 1288 to welcome pilgrims visiting the head of St. John the Baptist. Removed in 1825, the floor was restored in 1894, including the labyrinth and it's center bronze plaque with angels hosting the reigning King, founding Bishop, and Master Mason architect, medieval Daedalus.
Composited image from 15 photographs.

TINTAGEL, Cornwall, England

The legendary birthplace of King Arthur with Merlin's Cave beneath the ruins of Tintagel Castle. The land remembers Camelot, Excalibur, the Grail; ancient names from legend in the ruins of Cornwall.
Rex Quondam, Rex Futurus.
Composited image from 12 photographs.

LOCMARIAQUER Brittany, France

Table des Marchands Neolithic Dolmen was a lavishly carved with dozens of herders' crooks around 4,000 bc. Next to le Grand Menhir Brisé, the tallest single standing stone at 75 feet, this ceremonial site was used at a time when prehistoric wanderers became shepherds and farmers. The fallen Menhir would have been visible from the Carnac stone row avenues.
Composited image from 5 photographs.

GUINGAMP Côtes-du-Nord, France

The 19th century Basilique de Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in home to two Black Madonnas, one watching over the stone labyrinth in the north porch, the other in the nave when she isn't on parade about town. The brass center proclaims 'Ave Maria' while subtle stone carved shells signal pilgrims this a St. James of Compostela stop.
Composited image from 14 photographs.

Artist Statement: Photography <=> Technology

THEN: Kalamazoo College astronomical engineering/ art major with physics lab keys (shot lasers at camera, contorted polarized gel lens). Senior project Upjohn Pharmaceutical electron scanning microscope & printing officially discarded Polaroid negatives in full Zone System while managing Kalamazoo Arts Institute darkroom 1979.
First magazine photo assignment: Xerox Parc Alto Star computer & prototype mouse for Byte Magazine 1982.
First computer print from a photo: Versetec 40” x unlimited, Stonehenge (snuck in on weekends) 1983.
Photoshop 2.0 registered user 1991.
Solo exhibit of digitally manipulated photos (blue sky over telephone poles at prehistoric sites in England, bullet holes and cowboy graffiti removed from Southwest petroglyphs). Dozens of hours watching watch cursor, hand-coloring ancient carvings with mouse, saving often onto a fist-full of Magneto Optical disks which required my local service bureau to shut down their shop computers to daisy chain me in to RIP my file to the spanking new Fiery printer; files enormous 4 MB behemoths 1993.

NOW: Mac Dual G5, flat screen with 1/2 dozen external storage hard disks and a big Wacom tablet with wireless pen, Photoshop CS3 and source material from dozens of original transparencies and digital photos. Since my college work/study job in the AV department, I've been producing multimedia extravaganzas with hundreds of slides, dissolving every few seconds. Long time exposures with moving lights and etheric figures have long been my signature photographic technique. This new work is a still frame with multiple images partially dissolved, partially revealed, time exposed layers of place, pilgrimage and memory.

"Cindy Pavlinac is a pioneer of Photoshop!" - Jack Fulton, San Francisco Art Institute

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