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ARTIST STATEMENT

Sarah Treanor

I've been experimenting with combining cyanotypes and eco

prints this term. Finding interesting ways to blend the two
processes has created otherworldly pieces that seem to whisper

of the basic elements of life. I see glimpses of both large and

small worlds in these… vast landscapes of faraway planets and

microscopic cellular worlds. This piece in particular - an eco

print of bitterweed that was then cyanotype printed with more

of the same plant - reminded me of a complex underwater world

and the whole microcosm within it.

This term has been especially filled with discovery, as I have

been traveling and working with limited supplies and with

plants in a different region of the US than I've worked with

before - Indian Blanket, Prairie Verbena, and Palafoxia to

name a few. My time traveling has been a beautiful process of

expanding and contracting - learning to flow with nature's

rhythms.