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The Pond (18 x 24" original hand-printed cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
The Pond (18 x 24" original hand-printed cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

The Pond (18 x 24" original hand-printed cyanotype) - Photography

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Shipping: UPS 5-7 days
Estimated Arrival: December 1, 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. Works on paper longer than 24 inches ship rolled in a 6-inch wide heavy duty tube.

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
0.11 kg
0.25 lb

Unframed. Ships in a box.

Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is technically a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process.

The plant is called California bulrush or in Latin, juncus patens, a local California native marsh grass. 

All my botanical cyanotypes are one-of-kind monotypes. There is no etched copper plate, no carved wood block, no printing press and no ink to be able to reproduce these images. There is no film negative either. Each is a unique, hand-printed lensless photograph made using real plants from my own garden.

Item The Pond (18 x 24" original hand-printed 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.