screenprinted text, cyanotype, found materials

Specimens of Summer is an exploration of both the flora and undercurrent of transition that is inevitable as the seasons change.

Seasonal transitions have been a focal point of my life for as long as I can remember:  watching the beautiful summer blooms turn to seed, or the wilted leaves harden and crisp away into nothing. 

As my husband and I prepare to move into a more urban setting after a life of being in the midst of more natural beauty, I found this to be an important study – a mapping of the place I am leaving. I wanted to go back to the very basics of photography when the cyanotype was used to record plant life in order to study it. My collection is as much a mapping of my mind as it is a recording of physical life transitioning to nothingness.

cyanotype, van dyke brown, gum bichromate (alternative process/non-silver photography), found materials

2012-2015