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This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of  plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor.

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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office.

About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. 

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of  plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor.

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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office.

About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. 

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of  plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor.

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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office.

About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. 

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of  plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor.

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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office.

About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. 

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of  plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor.

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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office.

About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. 

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

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The Cracks Are Where the Light Gets In Collage

Christine So

United States

Collage, Paper on Wood

Size: 16 W x 16 H x 1.5 D in

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This collage was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints) of plants in my garden. The act of collage making, of taking something apart and putting it back together in a totally new way to make something better, is a metaphor. 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 the suppression of black votes and elect more progressive voices to public office. About the title: As in all cases of longstanding corruption or abuse, it's once someone dares to speak up, or someone captures undeniable evidence of the truth, that light gets in and the system can be changed.The words Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song 'Anthem' fit so perfectly America's mood in the summer of 2020 following another black American’s killing by a white police officer. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. There is a wire on the back making it ready to hang immediately. The 1.5 deep wood sides are painted white making it not necessary to frame.

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Paper on Wood

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16 W x 16 H x 1.5 D in

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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic, Jumaira Resort (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Evercore NY, Mazars Accounting NY, Limelight Mammoth Hotel & Residences, MD Anderson Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, Oakland International Airport. Represented by Thomas Deans Fine Art of Atlanta, GA. Christine So is a painter, photographer and printmaker living across the San Francisco Bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her works are heavily inspired by the woods where she has lived and hiked for decades. She works in acrylic and in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes. She creates botanical and abstract prints without a camera lens, as well as hand-printed landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. Whether it’s painting, printmaking, or photography, her work is always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic. She has worked in a dozen mediums, cycling back and forth from painting to printmaking to cyanotype, applying effects from one medium to the next. She bridges the mediums of photography, monoprinting and painting. Her favorite question when working in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes is “What would happen if…?” She has devised a range of atypical techniques using the cyanotype process. Arguably the most striking of her unique methods are her cyanotype paintings in her Delft Garden series. The painted silhouettes of plants each contain an intricate blue and white pattern within them when viewed up close.The lengthy process begins as a pencil drawing which is then painted in–not with ink or paint–but with the cyanotype light-sensitive mixture in a dark room. It’s a tricky process as it’s hard to see what one is painting in very dim light. Days later once the photography chemicals have dried in the painting, she lays plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that will leave gaps similar to lace. She then carefully moves the entire bundle outside and exposes the pattern to sunlight to create the image-within-the-image. The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf resembles painted Delft pottery, thus the title of this series: Delft Garden. Another of the artist’s innovative techniques is her series of completely abstract cyanotypes printed without photo negatives or stencils.

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