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Printmaking, Cyanotype on Paper
Size: 72 W x 18 H x 0.1 D in
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NOTE: these are the same three prints which are also listed for sale individually by the names “Faraway Hills 1,” “Faraway Hills 2” and “Faraway Hills 3.” Therefore it is impossible to buy this set of 3 here AND those 3 separate listings. If you would like all, please buy the triptych here which lowers the cost for the buyer, the carbon footprint for delivery and the amount of time the artist will spend packing one box rather than three. Three monoprints 24 x 18 inches each. Unframed. On heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Unframed side by side they span 72” (6 feet). Once matted and framed to 24” high x 30” wide they will span over 90” side on a wall (about 8 feet) with gaps between them. Though these monotypes of subtle gradations resemble watercolor paintings or aquatint etchings, they’re actually a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. Each is a unique multiple-exposure lensless photograph. These exact 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. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water.
2022
Cyanotype on Paper
One-of-a-kind Artwork
72 W x 18 H x 0.1 D in
3
Not Framed
Not applicable
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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Ritz Carlton, Mayo Clinic, Jumaira Resort (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Evercore NY, Apollo Global Management, NY, Mazars Accounting NY, Limelight Mammoth Hotel & Residences, MD Anderson Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, Oakland International Airport. 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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