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Christine SoIndigo Maple Triptych (3 hand-printed botanical cyanotypes, 24 x 18 in. each)2024
2024
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Unframed.
(Three 24 x 18 inch separate hand-printed cyanotypes on paper, total 24 x 54 inches/ 137 x 61 cm)
These are 3 unframed unique hand-printed monotypes on heavy cotton cold-press watercolor paper with a slight texture. They have straight cut edges, not deckled edges. If matted and framed in 30h x 24w” frames, they will span 6 linear feet .The leaves in these cyanotypes are a pale blue and not a white. The different shades of blue are created by exposing some parts of the light-sensitive paper to sunlight longer than others through multiple exposures. The background is a French blue (not a super dark navy blue) and the leaves are a pale aqua. (See the last closeup photo of the edge of one print laid on top of white paper to see the contrast).
Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. While traditional cyanotypes are a navy blue background with sharp white silhouettes, I prefer to manipulate the process to achieve varying softer shades of blue instead, rather like aquatint etchings.All my botanical cyanotypes are one-of-kind monotypes using actual fresh-cut branches from trees in my garden or fallen trees in the woods where I hike.
This particular species of tree is a Dancing Peacock Full Moon Fernleaf Japanese Maple or in Latin, Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium. The Japanese name is Mai Kujaku.There is no etched copper plate, no carved wood block, no printing press and no ink to be able to reproduce these images. There is no film negative either. Each is a unique, hand-printed lensless photograph made using real plants from my own garden. They will ship flat in one box, stacked on top of each other.
SHIPPING: Free shipping to United States, Europe, UK in a wide tube. Both monotypes will ship rolled together in one 6-inch wide (15cm) heavy cardboard tube.
- Creator:Christine So (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 54 in (137.16 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:noPrice: $750
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- Gallery Location:Oakland, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2737214415002
Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from her hometown, San Francisco. She is best known for her blue and white cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog. The Foggy Woods series is ever-growing as the artist continually hikes these hills which are often foggy at dawn. She explores radically different ways to use this antique photographic medium with and without out a camera. At times her blue prints look like screen prints. At others like abstract watercolors. Besides printing photographs from negatives, botanicals using entire branches, altering the chemical recipe to obtain novel colors, and creating abstract cyanotypes of deliberate patterns, she also paints images using the light-sensitive solution and prints a pattern within them. These last works she calls “cyanotype paintings”. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the light-sensitive painted silhouette before it’s time. She named her series of botanical paintings which have a fine blue and white pattern “Delft Garden” after the Dutch painted porcelain. 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.
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