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Photography, Monotype on Paper
Size: 14 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in
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The sight of wild grass always makes me think of summer, of wide open spaces. Of fresh air and freedom. Now at a time when most of the world is in self-isolation at home, it is a beautiful escape to make images that evoke vast spaces. My neighborhood friend who is originally from South Africa let me take some of this grass from her front yard. It is native to her country. At over 4 feet tall, the stems are thick like reeds but don't grow near water. The plant grows in tufts of individual stalks whose lines have a graceful bend when the seed heads grow heavy. This grass has many names, among them Dekriet or Beernabom. ‘Elegia Tectorum’ is the Latin name. This round print is a cyanotype, a 19th century method of contact photography. No camera was used. All my hand-stained cyanotypes are unique single edition prints similar to monotypes in printmaking as the plants were laid by hand in a new composition for each exposure to light.There is no negative and also no image etched into a copper plate or carved into a block. This print is a 14-inch circular piece of 100% cotton acid-free watercolor paper. It comes with a slightly larger 15-inch square white sheet of the same watercolor paper to place behind the round print when framing it.
Photography:Monotype on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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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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