From the beginning of my artistic career, I have always had a passion for film photography. It was earlier on this year, during the research stage of my senior art show that I realized why. Photography, especially film, is a tactile experience. The time I spend working in the dark room, is time in which my hands and soon to be photographs connect over a course of numerous different stages. To transform a blank piece of paper into a photograph requires a dedication to specific steps, a following of process that for me speaks to the level of intimacy spent between artist and concept. However, the processes responsible for the creating the final work almost always goes unnoticed. The little evidence of process we do see is often deemed as a tool, test print, reference etc. In photography this would be the contact sheet, which for most photographers never goes further than the dark room. When deciding to take printmaking this semester I knew I wanted to incorporate my photographic background, with an art making practice I was unfamiliar with. Not long after I realized that film photography and printmaking share many similarities, more specifically the commitment to process both art forms require. Over the last few months, I experimented with ways in which I could achieve the combination and manipulation of photograph and print, eventually deciding that I wanted my final project to speak to the affinity I feel for both. There for why I chose to title this work Process, as I immediately fell in love with print making for the same reasons I fell in love with film. In that they both share creative processes that allowed me to connect with my own work throughout many stages of its creation. To depict this appreciation, I chose to combine acontact sheet with the printing making equivalent (test proofs). Using my old negatives I prepared screens with film images, as well as an enlarged contact sheet. I then made numerous test proofs with the images that acted as the background of the composition. In completion I added the contact sheet over the test images. This work speaks not only to my appreciation for process, but to the beauty I see in both these forms. Often test prints and contact sheets are not considered artwork, but I feel that in many ways they are almost more significant. If these are the images allowing for the final piece considered to be art, then why can’t they be considered art as well?