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Christine SoFoggy Iris Triptych (three 24 x 18" cyanotypes)2025
2025
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The pale gray-green of this monotype calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems bend with their own weight, creating beautiful arcs and lines in every composition.
Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. The normal color of a cyanotype (blueprint or sun print is dark blue. This pale celadon blue-green-gray is an altered photographic recipe the artist has perfected.
Every one of the artist's botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as the freshly cut plants are laid in that one exact composition only once before they wilt. There is no copper plate; there is no ink or printing press.
Unframed.
Hand-printed on cotton watercolor paper with straight edges, not deckled edges.
- Creator:Christine So (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 54 in (137.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Oakland, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2737216816962
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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