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Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper) - Photography

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Price $450

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Shipping: 5-7 days
Estimated Arrival: December 1, 2024
Ships via United Postal Service Ground.
TWO prints.
Unframed.
Ships in a box.

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24H x 36W in
60.96H x 91.44W cm

Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" monotypes on paper)
$450.00. Unframed. Ships in a box.

Price is for BOTH 18 x 24” prints which ship together in one box. Their surface area is 24 x 36” unframed but once matted and framed, they’ll span 48” or more horizontally.

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Although these two monoprints look like a block prints or screenprints, they’re actually a form of 19th century photography called cyanotypes.

“Cyan” means blue in Greek. However, I dramatically altered the normal ratios of the two chemicals which comprise the photo emulsion, yielding not the traditional dark blue and white but a pale gray-green and white. This is a very soft subtle pastel hue like the blue-gray-green celadon glaze often used on Japanese pottery. The white leaves are a pale cream.

This was not made with ink and a printing press. All my botanical cyanotypes are unique made without a camera or photo negative, made with fresh cut plants which wilted soon afterwards. There is no block or metal plate which can be inked and re-used.

This pale green bamboo monotype is ever so slightly darker than the two in the diptych sold together of the same name "Celadon Bamboo Diptych" but is the same size.

Unframed. On 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed by the artist on the back.

Item Celadon Bamboo Diptych (Two 18 x 24" originals on paper)
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.