The Journey (18 x 24 inch Original Hand-Printed Cyanotype on Paper)

18 x 24 inches. Unframed.

Signed on the back by the artist.

Ships flat in a box.

This is a handmade contact photo using the antique cyanotype process from the 1800s. All of my hand-printed cyanotype photographs are “contact photos”, which means that the large negative is exactly the same size as the paper that the photo is printed on because the negative is laid directly on top of the paper while it is being exposed.

The tree is an oak. The road is Skyline Blvd in Oakland, California. In both winter and summer there are dense foggy mornings here next to the redwood forest. The way the light through fog transforms the familiar is magical. The metaphor of a road for our journey through life is a constant in my work.

The paper is a heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Slight variations of shades of blue exist from print to print as each sheet of paper was hand-painted with photo chemicals in the dark and printed in natural sunlight with variations in the weather and intensity of light causing some prints to be darker than others.