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June Breeze (18 x 36" original cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of cotton & paper compatible with boho and contemporary style
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June Breeze (18 x 36" original cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of cotton & paper compatible with boho and contemporary style
June Breeze (18 x 36" original cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of cotton & paper compatible with boho and contemporary style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

June Breeze (18 x 36" original cyanotype on paper) - Photography

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Works on paper longer than 24 inches ship rolled in a 6-inch wide heavy duty tube.

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DimensionsWeight
18H x 36W x 0.1D in
45.72H x 91.44W x 0.25D cm
0.45 kg
1 lb

UNFRAMED. Unique monotype. On heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed on the back by the artist.
Ships rolled in a tube.

This is a native California reed or wild grass that grows in wetlands called “Gray Rush” (Juncus Patens). Although this looks like an etching or block print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints.

It is difficult to make one this size, 3 feet long, as the glass needed to lie on top of the cut plants is as long as the paper or longer. Glass and plexiglass this size is heavy and hard to move without the plants underneath sliding out of position or the glass breaking or cracking.

Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as each blade of grass or twig is laid by hand in that exact composition only once. I spend as much time planning and arranging the composition as I do exposing and rinsing the final print. There is no copper plate; there is no ink or printing press to make more than one copy.

Item June Breeze (18 x 36" original cyanotype 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.