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The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in country & farmhouse or rustic style
The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in country & farmhouse or rustic style
The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in country & farmhouse or rustic style
The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph) | Photography by Christine So. Item composed of wood and paper in country & farmhouse or rustic style

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Christine So

The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph)

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Estimated Arrival: November 24, 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 a 6-inch wide heavy duty tube.

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Sustainable

Made In USA

Made To Order

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DimensionsWeight
16H x 12W x 1.5D in
40.64H x 30.48W x 3.81D cm
0.68 kg
1.5 lb

Framed in a 12 x 16 inch white MDF wood frame. The paper itself is 9 x 12 inches. The light-sensitive photo chemicals were brushed onto the paper ("stained" or "coated") loosely in such a way that the edges appear to melt away as if in a vague memory.

This is a handmade contact photo, which means that the negative was the same size as the eventual photograph and was laid directly on top of the treated paper in order to make the print. The blue and white cyanotype process was developed in the mid-1800s and is an alternative photographic process to the usual black-and-white process.

The tree is an oak. The road is Skyline Blvd in Oakland where I live. I captured the moment when the sun begins to burn through the winter morning fog in the hills of Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco, which has its own reputation for fog.

Item The Road Ahead (FRAMED. Hand-Stained Cyanotype Photograph)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, 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.