Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Gallery at NYU has included 2 of my cyanotypes prints in Works on Paper, a group exhibit at the Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, LA, March 29-May 4th.
- Wellspring 9 & Wellspring 11 both are 24” x 24” x 4.5” framed
Cyanotypes are a magical form of photography. As a child you may have made “sunprints” or “nature prints” by placing objects on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light to produce imagery of white with a cyan blue background. Think blueprint.
In reading The New York Review of Books, I came upon a reference to an 1843 book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, by Anna Atkins, an English botanist who published the first book of botany illustrations with her cyanotypes.
When I embarked on an Artist Residency to the Portuguese Azores Island of Flores (flowers) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, I decided to follow Atkins’ tradition and record my impressions of the wide variety of flowers on Flores making cyanotype photographs.