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Collage, Cyanotype on Wood
Size: 40 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
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This monochromatic collage on wooden panel was made by cutting up and reassembling my own hand-printed abstract cyanotypes. The monotypes I used all had a gradation of pale blue to darker blue with a curved fish scale pattern resembling the crests of waves when repeated. Depending which way they are turned, the pattern resembles the sea, mountain ranges or desert dunes. My experimental abstract cyanotypes are luminous like watercolor paintings, but are actually multiple-exposure cameraless photographs. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects (like plants or stencils) on the light-sensitive paper, I use the surface of water to block sunlight and thus expose small sections of the paper to different amounts of light. I create subtle gradations of paler and darker blue as I submerge the light-sensitive paper for carefully timed exposures underwater, tilting, bending, turning and lifting it as needed to get the waterline exactly where I want it to make a block of color of a different shade. I must take great care not to splash water onto the rest of the paper, as water washes off the chemicals that turn it darker, and also not have marks from where my fingers blocked the light. The result is a multiple-exposure sun print with multiple exposures or shades. The monotypes in my collage will not fade as they were not made using ink but rather the cyanotype photographic process. The 1.5 inch natural wooden sides of the panel are sealed with a clear varnish making it unnecessary to frame. It is ready to go on the wall with a wire. The surface of the paper is coated with a sheer layer of cold wax to protect it from moisture. (*This is not a thick encaustic wax layer, which would be melted on with a blowtorch, but an imperceptible protective compound that is rubbed on cold).
Collage:Cyanotype on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:40 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville), Jumaira Resort, Lux Habitat Sotheby’s International (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco (Salt Lake City) , Mazars Accounting, Limelight Hotel Mammoth (California), MD Anderson Hospital (Houston), Oncology Center, Houston Methodist Hospital. For a complete list of my corporate clients, visit the "About" page of my website www.christineso.gallery/ To see videos of my artistic process, visit me on instagram at @christinesogallery I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway Hills” series are ever-present fixtures in my real life. Down below is the bay and above is an endless web of tree branches. Their silhouettes have etched themselves into my memory. My paintings and prints are always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic. Having spent a decade as a printmaker making woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, aquatints and monotypes, my mind works in monochrome. I focus on a single color, composition, positive and negative space, pattern, lines and shape. I currently work in two mediums, acrylic painting and cyanotypes, a form of camera-less photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century form of lensless photography also known as photograms, blueprints and sun prints. They resemble block prints or etchings but use no ink nor printing press. Light “etches” the image on paper I had painted with light-sensitive chemicals. MY NEWEST SERIES OF ABSTRACT CYANOTYPES: My technique is a form of experimental photography, much like the action painters Morris Louis, who poured his veil paintings, or Jackson Pollock who dripped and drizzled his. My abstract cyanotypes are luminous like watercolor paintings but are actually photographs. Each is a multiple-exposure lensless photograph make through deliberate movements of the light-sensitive paper during exposure to light. Different sections of the paper were exposed to light for a longer or shorter time, yielding multiple shades of blue. Each abstract cyanotype is entirely unique. These same lines, shapes and shades of blue cannot be recreated as the exposure of the paper was heavily manipulated by me during each printing. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background.
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