• Cyanotype and Vandyke brown print showing brown silhouette of leaves, stems, flowers on mostly green background
    Untitled Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Print, Collection of Ania and Jerry Gilmore, 19 x26 inches
  • Vandyke brown print and cyanotype diptych of of leaves, flowers, vine, on mostly shades of brown background
    Untitled Diptych, Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Print
  • Vandyke brown and cyanotype prints of leaves and vines, collaged together to make one larger piece
    Untitled Collage , Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Print
  • Vandyke brown cyanotype print of botanicals
    Havana Storm, Triptych, Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Print
  • Vandyke brown and cyanotype print ofl leaves on blue-green background
    Untitled Diptych, Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Print, Collection of Rhoda Rosenberg

Van Dyke brown printing and cyanotype

In conventional photography, we think of the camera’s shutter as capturing time in parts of a second. With the antique processes, minutes and hours might be needed for one exposure in the sun, so each print corresponds to a kind of passed/past time. Even though the collected works allude to the passage of seasonal time, the entire process results in a spontaneous accumulation that archives days into months and years.