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This small collage is part of the same series that Saatchi Art featured in its April 27, 2020 'New This Week' collection. It is the third in my 'Night and Day' series of collages using my hand-printed cyanotypes. When I made this in early May of 2020, I was thinking of the coranavirus pandemic and the metaphor of night and day, of suffering and relief. After George Floyd's murder in late May, a line from a poem by Maya Angelou, which is the title of this work, spoke to me. The way in which Americans of all colors and ages came together in the streets nationwide to demand justice and change gives one hope. "Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You" is a line from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" which she read nearly 30 years ago at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The poem speaks about the unspeakable pain inflicted on so many African Americans and Native Americans throughout America's history, words that ring true today in the wake of another police killing of another black American. Yet the end of her poem is full of optimism: Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances For new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever To fear, yoked eternally To brutishness. The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day You may have the courage To look up and out upon me, The rock, the river, the tree, your country. No less to Midas than the mendicant. No less to you now than the mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. The artist's proceeds from the sale of this piece will go to Fair Fight, an organization focused on free and fair elections in the U.S. It was founded by Georgia democrat Stacey Abrams with a mission to end Republicans' voter suppression tactics and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the 8 x 8 inch piece itself: The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted pale gold. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax to protect it.
This small collage is part of the same series that Saatchi Art featured in its April 27, 2020 'New This Week' collection. It is the third in my 'Night and Day' series of collages using my hand-printed cyanotypes. When I made this in early May of 2020, I was thinking of the coranavirus pandemic and the metaphor of night and day, of suffering and relief. After George Floyd's murder in late May, a line from a poem by Maya Angelou, which is the title of this work, spoke to me. The way in which Americans of all colors and ages came together in the streets nationwide to demand justice and change gives one hope. "Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You" is a line from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" which she read nearly 30 years ago at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The poem speaks about the unspeakable pain inflicted on so many African Americans and Native Americans throughout America's history, words that ring true today in the wake of another police killing of another black American. Yet the end of her poem is full of optimism: Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances For new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever To fear, yoked eternally To brutishness. The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day You may have the courage To look up and out upon me, The rock, the river, the tree, your country. No less to Midas than the mendicant. No less to you now than the mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. The artist's proceeds from the sale of this piece will go to Fair Fight, an organization focused on free and fair elections in the U.S. It was founded by Georgia democrat Stacey Abrams with a mission to end Republicans' voter suppression tactics and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the 8 x 8 inch piece itself: The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted pale gold. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax to protect it.
This small collage is part of the same series that Saatchi Art featured in its April 27, 2020 'New This Week' collection. It is the third in my 'Night and Day' series of collages using my hand-printed cyanotypes. When I made this in early May of 2020, I was thinking of the coranavirus pandemic and the metaphor of night and day, of suffering and relief. After George Floyd's murder in late May, a line from a poem by Maya Angelou, which is the title of this work, spoke to me. The way in which Americans of all colors and ages came together in the streets nationwide to demand justice and change gives one hope. "Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You" is a line from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" which she read nearly 30 years ago at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The poem speaks about the unspeakable pain inflicted on so many African Americans and Native Americans throughout America's history, words that ring true today in the wake of another police killing of another black American. Yet the end of her poem is full of optimism: Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances For new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever To fear, yoked eternally To brutishness. The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day You may have the courage To look up and out upon me, The rock, the river, the tree, your country. No less to Midas than the mendicant. No less to you now than the mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. The artist's proceeds from the sale of this piece will go to Fair Fight, an organization focused on free and fair elections in the U.S. It was founded by Georgia democrat Stacey Abrams with a mission to end Republicans' voter suppression tactics and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the 8 x 8 inch piece itself: The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted pale gold. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax to protect it.
This small collage is part of the same series that Saatchi Art featured in its April 27, 2020 'New This Week' collection. It is the third in my 'Night and Day' series of collages using my hand-printed cyanotypes. When I made this in early May of 2020, I was thinking of the coranavirus pandemic and the metaphor of night and day, of suffering and relief. After George Floyd's murder in late May, a line from a poem by Maya Angelou, which is the title of this work, spoke to me. The way in which Americans of all colors and ages came together in the streets nationwide to demand justice and change gives one hope. "Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You" is a line from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" which she read nearly 30 years ago at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The poem speaks about the unspeakable pain inflicted on so many African Americans and Native Americans throughout America's history, words that ring true today in the wake of another police killing of another black American. Yet the end of her poem is full of optimism: Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances For new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever To fear, yoked eternally To brutishness. The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day You may have the courage To look up and out upon me, The rock, the river, the tree, your country. No less to Midas than the mendicant. No less to you now than the mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. The artist's proceeds from the sale of this piece will go to Fair Fight, an organization focused on free and fair elections in the U.S. It was founded by Georgia democrat Stacey Abrams with a mission to end Republicans' voter suppression tactics and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the 8 x 8 inch piece itself: The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted pale gold. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax to protect it.
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Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You Collage

Christine So

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This small collage is part of the same series that Saatchi Art featured in its April 27, 2020 'New This Week' collection. It is the third in my 'Night and Day' series of collages using my hand-printed cyanotypes. When I made this in early May of 2020, I was thinking of the coranavirus pandemic and the metaphor of night and day, of suffering and relief. After George Floyd's murder in late May, a line from a poem by Maya Angelou, which is the title of this work, spoke to me. The way in which Americans of all colors and ages came together in the streets nationwide to demand justice and change gives one hope. "Lift Up Your Eyes Upon the Day Breaking for You" is a line from Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" which she read nearly 30 years ago at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The poem speaks about the unspeakable pain inflicted on so many African Americans and Native Americans throughout America's history, words that ring true today in the wake of another police killing of another black American. Yet the end of her poem is full of optimism: Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances For new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever To fear, yoked eternally To brutishness. The horizon leans forward, Offering you space to place new steps of change. Here, on the pulse of this fine day You may have the courage To look up and out upon me, The rock, the river, the tree, your country. No less to Midas than the mendicant. No less to you now than the mastodon then. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. The artist's proceeds from the sale of this piece will go to Fair Fight, an organization focused on free and fair elections in the U.S. It was founded by Georgia democrat Stacey Abrams with a mission to end Republicans' voter suppression tactics and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the 8 x 8 inch piece itself: The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted pale gold. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax to protect it.

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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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