Cyanotype Series A
Chosen for Arts Center East, Vernon CT, Coping juried exhibit, Sept. 4-27, 2020.
Two Bottles; A Hawk Feather (with pastel overpainting), and Flight (with pastel overpainting).
After the initial shock of the lockdown and the scramble to figure out how to get food and necessities, I found myself in a life with no schedule and few obligations. Routine chores became unimportant. With no need to dress for anyone or anything, laundry dropped to near nothing, No one was allowed in my house so……you get the picture, Most important, though, was that I had time to dig out materials for projects that I’d stowed away over the years.
Last year I saw the hauntingly beautiful cyanotype images created by Anna Atkins at an exhibit in the N.Y. Public Library. She began using the newly invented photographic process in 1843 to catalog her collection of seaweeds and algae. From the exhibit notice: “With great daring, creativity, and technical skill, she produced Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be illustrated with photographs, and the first substantial application of photography to science.”
www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/blue-prints-pioneering-ph...
I found packets of sun-sensitive paper buried in a box. And, I found a new obsession. The search for materials to “photograph” has its own rewards, and the process of printing with the sun has its own rhythms. I forget about the troubles and horrors of the outside world for hours at a time. That’s enough for now,
Cyanotype Series A
Chosen for Arts Center East, Vernon CT, Coping juried exhibit, Sept. 4-27, 2020.
Two Bottles; A Hawk Feather (with pastel overpainting), and Flight (with pastel overpainting).
After the initial shock of the lockdown and the scramble to figure out how to get food and necessities, I found myself in a life with no schedule and few obligations. Routine chores became unimportant. With no need to dress for anyone or anything, laundry dropped to near nothing, No one was allowed in my house so……you get the picture, Most important, though, was that I had time to dig out materials for projects that I’d stowed away over the years.
Last year I saw the hauntingly beautiful cyanotype images created by Anna Atkins at an exhibit in the N.Y. Public Library. She began using the newly invented photographic process in 1843 to catalog her collection of seaweeds and algae. From the exhibit notice: “With great daring, creativity, and technical skill, she produced Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be illustrated with photographs, and the first substantial application of photography to science.”
www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/blue-prints-pioneering-ph...
I found packets of sun-sensitive paper buried in a box. And, I found a new obsession. The search for materials to “photograph” has its own rewards, and the process of printing with the sun has its own rhythms. I forget about the troubles and horrors of the outside world for hours at a time. That’s enough for now,