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2022 Commission for Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida | Photography by Christine So | Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl in Jacksonville
2022 Commission for Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida | Photography by Christine So | Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl in Jacksonville
2022 Commission for Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida | Photography by Christine So | Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl in Jacksonville

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Christine So

2022 Commission for Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida - Photography

Featured In Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl, Jacksonville, FL

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Each unframed print measures 24 x 18 inches. Matted and framed in 30 x 24" frames, they span over 6 feet (72+ inches) horizontally.

Want to commission a NEW original botanical cyanotype or triptych?

I can make botanical cyanotypes as big as 22 x 30”, 24 x 36", 36 x 36", 26 x 40”, 30 x 40" and also 24" narrow by up to 60" in length but not more than 24" in width. If you need to cover a large area of wall, a triptych of three vertical cyanotypes works quite well.

All of my commissioned works are sold unframed.

Cyanotypes are a 19th century form of cameraless photography. These are triple-exposure cyanotypes, meaning that the plants were laid in three different locations on the photo-sensitive paper and the image was re-exposed for precise amounts of time, to create the ghostly overlapping images.

My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural light and no film negative. There is no lens and there is no etched plate or printing press. As much time is spent in their composition and timing the separate exposures as goes into the final exposure and rinsing.

There is no way to reproduce exactly the same effects even if I keep the same plant cuttings to use in a series before they wilt. There is no carved block nor etched copper plate—only the sun causing the photo chemicals to darken every second that it remains exposed to light.

The simple yet beautiful sight of sunlight shining through leaves always brings me joy. Their translucence no doubt inspired the stained glass windows of medieval cathedrals. I love abstract painting, and in my multiple-exposure cyanotypes, I convert nature into an abstraction of the repeated shapes, patterns and colors.

Item 2022 Commission for Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Created by Christine So
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
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 Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 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.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.