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Faraway Hills 20 (18 x 24" handmade abstract cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper compatible with boho and minimalism style
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Faraway Hills 20 (18 x 24" handmade abstract cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper compatible with boho and minimalism style
Faraway Hills 20 (18 x 24" handmade abstract cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of paper compatible with boho and minimalism style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Faraway Hills 20 (18 x 24" handmade abstract cyanotype) - Photography

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Price $250

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Estimated Arrival: November 24, 2024

Handmade

Woman Owned

Sustainable

Made In USA

Made To Order

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DimensionsWeight
24H x 18W x 0.1D in
60.96H x 45.72W x 0.25D cm
0.45 kg
1 lb

Though these one-of-a-kind monotypes look like aquatint etchings or watercolor paintings, they are actually a form of photography called cyanotypes or sun prints. 

A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water, turning, bending and angling the paper as needed to shape the lines before they become permanently etched by the sun’s light.

Item Faraway Hills 20 (18 x 24" handmade abstract cyanotype)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
Meet the Creator

Christine So

Oakland, CA

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.