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| Hosta 'Invincible' 10 August 2025 |
It was in the summer of 2001 that in a fit of boredom I cut some Rosa ‘Reine Victoria’ and scanned them on my Epson flatbed scanner. Since then I may have amassed over 3000 of these images that I call scanographs.
In that 20th century one of the then latest advancements was the fax machine. In this century, in Vancouver, it survives with lawyers and doctors.
My Epson Perfection V700 Photo is no longer being made. It has been replaced by a much more expensive one. None of my photographic peers have a scanner. At the most they may have a printer with a built-in scanner and it is not the same thing.
I keep telling myself that I am an artist and that my scans (I print many of them) are art. Most of the people I show them to usually have nothing to say. Perhaps it is because when you see one scan after a while all are the same.
One of the villains is this chap:
The first set of emojis was invented in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese interface designer working for NTT DoCoMo. He created 176 emoji as part of the development team for i-mode, an early mobile internet platform. These were designed to facilitate communication and add an engaging element to electronic messages.
There is a word that perhaps emojis replaced. People still verbally say or write “stunning” or ‘iconic” but rarely use “remarkable”.
That word involves saying or writing a personal opinion. Thanks to Kurita it is much easier to thumbs up it.
I am completely astounded by the scanograph of my Hosta ‘Invincible’. Each time I scan a plant, the result is a pleasant surprise. I may have an idea of what the scan will look like but that is not enough to the fact that I am delighted at seeing the finished result.
I am enclosing a photograph of the scan setup. One of my most useful devices is my mother’s ancient stapler. One of the hosta scapes (hosta nomenclature for stem) is affixed to the stapler with good photographic gaffer tape.
