Large poliptych “Lava rock” cyanotype print

Description

I present to you here my limited edition, large works of art.
The subject is a molten lava rock, with a beautiful bend and organic movements, to decorate your life, or to be gifted as a nature poetry.
These large prints, using the historic photographic process of Cyanotype, have been handmade in Lanzarote and show you organic parts found around the island. Each photograph has been hand printed on a thin paper, the Hahnemuhle Sumi-e 80g rice paper, that has been bonded later over Arches Platine 100% 310g pure cotton paper as a heavier support, with a technique called Chine Collé, using natural powdered starch paste. The Chine Collé bonding is water reversible, put the work of art into water (pH 7) for one hour to detach the print from its paper support. To overcome the limit of the negative dimensions I split the photographic print into several negatives, creating diptyches, triptyches, polyptyches. Each print is made in a limited edition of 24.

The work of art is attached to a fine-art Aluminium Dibond with a thin double-sided adhesive tape all around its borders and kept under light pressure to cure. The Dibond has a square frame on the back to help you hang the work on your wall.

Each print is labelled on the back of the dibond with the edition details and signed. A certificate of autenthicity comes within the work. All the works are carefully protected with packaging foam and put inside a customized cardboard box. The box(es) are shipped safely protected with other wrapping material, inside an outer box.

Each item I sell is an original, different from the others. To be collected. Do not get confused by those who write “original” print and offer you a digital print of a once original cyanotype.

– print dimension: 4x(30x30cm); 4x(12×12″)ca.
– process: classic cyanotype formula from 1842.
– paper: Hahnemuhle Sumi-e 80g rice paper chine collé over Arches Platine 100% cotton, no alkaline reserve, 310g/mq.
– framing: framed (aluminium dibond).
– shipping: anti humidity/scratch/bending package. Certified mail with tracking number.

Cyanotype is a very unique process where the photographic emulsion is prepared with two different iron salts. You need a black and white negative as large as the image to contact-print a photograph. The emulsion is UV sensitive (like with many other alternative photographic processes) so the exposure is made with the help of the sun. Developing a cyanotype is very eco-friendly because you need only water, no chemical developer or fixer is used in the process.

I am an artisan, living in Lanzarote and I work with recicled materials, making prints in cyanotype. The blue sky and the ocean have been the reason for me to change from my black and white photograpy to the wonderful prussian blue of cyanotype. The power of hundreds volcanoes and the ocean treasures of Lanzarote always inspire me.
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