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Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in boho or japandi style
Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in boho or japandi style
Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in boho or japandi style
Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in boho or japandi style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype) - Photography

Price $1,200

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Shipping: UPS 5-7 days
Estimated Arrival: December 4, 2024
Works ship via United Parcel Service. Ground shipping from California to the East Coast or Midwest usually takes 7 calendar days, to Texas 3-5 calendar days, and to the West coast 2-4 in normal weather.

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DimensionsWeight
37H x 37W x 1D in
93.98H x 93.98W x 2.54D cm
4.54 kg
10 lb

FRAMED in a 37 x 37" white wood frame.
(*Same size as the unframed "Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple)

At 36 x 36 inches , almost 1 x 1 m , this is the biggest size of cyanotype I have made. The tree grows in my own backyard. It is a particularly beautiful species of Japanese maple and is the title I have given it, so that no one can forget.

Though this monoprint looks like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cyanotype. Every botanical print is entirely unique made using fresh plants and trees from my own garden laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once. There is no ink, no printing press and no copper plate or wood block. Exposing and rinsing a sunprint this big outdoors — with a sheet of glass even bigger than the paper —is a delicate and complicated affair.

Item Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II (FRAMED 36 x 36 cyanotype)
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.