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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.
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