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Caminante No Hay Camino (18 x 24" Hand-Printed Cyanotype Pho | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Caminante No Hay Camino (18 x 24" Hand-Printed Cyanotype Pho | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Caminante No Hay Camino (18 x 24" Hand-Printed Cyanotype Pho | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Caminante No Hay Camino (18 x 24" Hand-Printed Cyanotype Pho - Photography

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24H x 18W x 0.1D in
60.96H x 45.72W x 0.25D cm

Unframed. The price of the 18 x 24" size is $250 and the price of the 12 x 16" size is $180. I'm having trouble adding varying sizes together in one listing.

A framed one of this same hand-printed landscape cyanotype sold to Timothée Chalamet at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles.
There are still a limited number of unframed ones available using the same photo negative hand-printed on 18 x 24" watercolor paper.

This is one of 10 original hand-printed 18 x 24” photographs printed on pure cotton watercolor paper using the antique cyanotype process invented in the 1850s. Because I brushed the light-sensitive chemicals on by hand in my darkroom, and the sun is brighter on some days during exposure, there is slight variation in the darkness of the blues even when using the exact same exposure time. Any small white marks are not scratches but rather the gaps between the brush bristles as I pressed down while applying the photo chemicals, a sign that a photograph was handmade.

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. It is cumbersome working with a breakable 30-inch sheet of glass at this scale.

The title is from a poem by Spanish poet Antonio Machado which translates as "Traveler there is no road, you make your own path as you walk...."These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods near my house in northern California where I walk. Anyone from Oakland will recognize them. They are a great comfort to me. The changing light and foggy weather transform them so that every hour and every day is like seeing a new painting.

Item Caminante No Hay Camino (18 x 24" Hand-Printed Cyanotype Pho
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
The World Is Blue: Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Starbucks, Mayo Clinic, Kimpton Hotels, Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 10 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

She paints in acrylic on canvas and prints cyanotypes on paper. Most of her works on paper are sold unframed though the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their size. There are some paintings listed as unframed and others as framed. Take not of the description before purchasing.