Unframed Cyanotype 34 (8” x 10”)

$135.00

Original 8” x 10” cyanotype on arches watercolor paper.

Cyanotypes are a photographic printing process made by exposing paper with a light-sensitizing chemical. The word cyanotype was derived from the Greek work “cyan” which means “dark-blue impression.”

Original 8” x 10” cyanotype on arches watercolor paper.

Cyanotypes are a photographic printing process made by exposing paper with a light-sensitizing chemical. The word cyanotype was derived from the Greek work “cyan” which means “dark-blue impression.”

 

A bit about the work

In these cyanotypes artist Ellen Mote layers abstractions of the female form, in a sheer manner nodding to her own feelings of invisibility as a woman and a mother. Ellen challenges our pursuit of perfection and the impossibility of the expectation with symmetrical, but imperfect, lines and shapes.