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Christine SoSpring Night Triptych (3 hand-printed botanical cyanotypes, 30 x 22 in. each)2024
2024
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These are three separate unframed unique works on heavy 100% cotton Arches watercolor paper with deckled edges. They will ship stacked together flat in one large flat cardboard box.
Each measures 30h x 22w inches. Once framed, hung side by side, they will span around 80 inches with a gap between them, around 6 1/2 - 7 feet horizontally.
Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process.
The blue sky in these monoprints is darker than the blue in the other triptych of the same size called “Evening Shade Triptych”. And the leaves are pale greenish blue, which from a distance is perceived as white, but if you see my last detail photo, against a white mat, they are not pure white.
All my botanical cyanotypes are one-of-kind monotypes. 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. These are branches from a cotoneaster tree. In one of the panels you can see the shapes of tiny berries on the branches.
- Creator:Christine So (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 66 in (167.64 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Oakland, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2737214402332
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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