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Spring Night 1 (FRAMED, 40 x 24 inches , original botanical cyanotype on paper)
40 x 24 inches FRAMED in a 3/8” slim white metal gallery frame with a 3-inch wide mat. Ready to hang.
The Chinese Elm has long slender branches that hang downward like those of willow trees. This giant monoprint was made with living branches from a huge Chinese elm tree in San Francisco. I love the way elms, willows and beech trees drape their strands of leaves like tinsel that blows in the breeze.
My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow contact photographs made outdoors using natural sunlight. There is no lens and there is no etched plate or printing press. While traditional cyanotypes are a crisp white silhouette against a dark blue background, I like to manipulate the process for a softer effect. There are no pure bright white parts of this print, only pale shades of blue and dark shades of blue. This is a multiple-exposure print, meaning that the paper underneath the plants was exposed to light more than once, each time for a differing number of seconds, creating the varying shades of blue.
