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Works.
A continuing series of cyanotypes made on paper, watercolor paper, amate, bristol and cotton fabric — Havana, Varanasi, Tikal, Mexico City, San Francisco, and beyond. Photosensitive chemistry as a way of holding the encounter in place without claiming to fix it.
Each work is printed in direct sunlight on the chosen substrate. Some are toned in herbal baths to bring warmth back into the blue. Others are stitched, layered, or left at the raw edge of the chemistry. The paper, the watercolor paper, the amate bark, the cotton fabric — each ground responds differently, and the response is part of the record.
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Paper, watercolor paper, amate (Mexican bark paper), bristol, 100% cotton fabric, and occasionally found textile or printed ephemera. The choice of ground is part of the work: amate carries the resin and tooth of the bark; bristol and watercolor paper hold the chemistry sharply; cotton fabric allows the cyanotype to keep moving with the cloth.
Coated in cyanotype chemistry, printed in direct sun, washed in water. Selected works are toned in herbal baths — green tea, black tea, coffee — to shift the cyanotype's native Prussian blue toward warmer browns, grays, and amber. Some works are hand-stitched into the field after washing.
All cyanotypes are one-of-one (1:1) unique works — no editions. Each is sized to the encounter; available framed or unframed, with documentation of substrate, exposure, and toning state. Available for acquisition.