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Collage, collage on Paper
Size: 18 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
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Featured in Saatchi Art’s April 27 ‘New This Week’ collection, this is the second of my series of collages on wooden panels using my cyanotype prints made from plants in my garden. Cyanotypes, also called blueprints, are a form of 19th century cameraless photography. Their usual color is dark blue and white, however, the yellow cyanotypes in the collage started out blue but were bleached or "toned." The two pieces on the left were actually part of the same print that I cut up and altered the color of one part. There is night and there is day. Change is the only constant. Night eventually gives way to day and day to night. When we are going through hard times, we need to remind ourselves that the sun will rise again. Conversely, when we have a moment of joy, when our children are small, or they enter an exciting new phase we must savor it, knowing it too will pass. The sides of the wooden cradle board are painted dark blue and were coated with the same wax as the image, giving it a satin finish. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age.The surface is coated with a transparent, matte layer of cold wax medium to protect it from moisture and dust.
Collage:collage on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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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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