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THE CREATIONIST CATHERINE SOBREDO In this day and age of digital manipulation and "re-touching," Polaroid image transfers have become somewhat of a lost art. Equal parts skill and a willingness to embrace its random qualities, the process involves exposing an image onto peel-apart Polaroid film and literally transferring the emulsion of the negative onto another surface. The resulting image is unpredictable, one-of-a-kind, and always magical. Based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Catherine Sobredo's Polaroid transfers match the earthen qualities of the desert that surrounds her. The feminine image is central to Catherine's work, serving as a catalyst for the colors and textures of her prints to evoke other places, times and memories only seen in long forgotten dreams. Her subjects are gently painted with soft warm-toned light, like a brilliant and sad sunset over the plains, giving them a vulnerable look, enhanced all the more by the Polaroid transfer's delicate process. |