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Spring Night 1 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 24" framed ) | Photography by Christine So

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Spring Night 1 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 24" framed ) - Photography

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SOLD in Stephanie Breitbard Fine Art Trunk Show, Nov. 2023.

Framed in a 3/8 inch white metal gallery frame with a 2.5 inch white mat and a 1-inch side profile.
and a 1-inch side profile.

This 19 x 36” (91 cm) long narrow monotype is of a Chinese Elm’s long slender branches that hang downward like those of willow trees. This unique cyanotype print was made using actual branches from a huge Chinese elm tree in San Francisco.

My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow contact photographs made outdoors using natural sunlight. There is no lens and there is no etched plate or printing press. While traditional cyanotypes are a crisp white silhouette against a dark blue background, I like to manipulate the process for a softer effect. There are no pure bright white parts of this print, only pale shades of blue and dark shades of blue.

Item Spring Night 1 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 24" framed )
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, Oakland, CA
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.