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Photography, Photogram on Paper
Size: 54 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in
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These are 3 unframed unique hand-printed monotypes on heavy cotton cold-press watercolor paper with a slight texture. They have straight cut edges, not deckled edges. The leaves of this print are pale blue and not white. The background is a French blue (not super dark navy) and the leaves are a pale aqua. See the last closeup photo of the edge of one print laid on top of white paper. I apologize for originally uploading photos of the prints while they were still wet, which made them appear darker. Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. While traditional cyanotypes are a navy blue background with sharp white silhouettes, I prefer to manipulate the process to achieve varying softer shades of blue instead, rather like aquatint etchings. This is a double exposure cyanotype. The different shades of blue are created by exposing some parts of the light-sensitive paper to sunlight longer than others. All my botanical cyanotypes are one-of-kind monotypes using actual fresh-cut branches from trees in my garden or fallen trees in the woods where I hike. This particular species of tree is a Dancing Peacock Full Moon Fernleaf Japanese Maple or in Latin, Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium. The Japanese name is Mai Kujaku. There is no etched copper plate, no carved wood block, no printing press and no ink to be able to reproduce these images. There is no film negative either. Each is a unique, hand-printed lensless photograph made using real plants from my own garden. *They will ship flat in one 24 x 30” box, stacked on top of each other. Not in a tube. I marked "by tube" because otherwise the automatically required shipping by wooden crate (for any artwork longer than 48" in one direction) costs four times more but is not necessary for works on paper that can be stacked on top of each other.
Multi-paneled Photography:Photogram on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:54 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in
Number of Panels:3
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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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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