A Thousand Reminders

Original Cyanotype Photogram Original Artwork with Hand-Stitching Painting is 5"x7" 140lb Cold Press Cotton Paper Archival Quality Mounted on Flat Canvas Panel Connecting with nature is an essential part of my existence, inspiration + peacefulness.  It only takes a momentary pause to realize how much beauty exists in our natural world.  The tiny barrier island where I live is home to some of the most magnificent specimens + evidence of God's majestic work.  I was inspired to capture them in this 19th-century photographic blueprint process called Cyanotype. I consider the collection of these organic specimens for artwork an act of worship.  I astutely look for interesting material on my various nature outings + travels when possible, always imagining what beautiful images they will produce. This soothing Prussian Blue color is produced when two chemicals are precisely mixed, hand-applied to paper in a darkened room, cured + later exposed to sunlight.  I select + place the specimen