Have you ever lost a long time friend? Husband? Wife? It's the most gut wrenching feeling one could ever experience. The grief can be completely debilitating.
When my husband died unexpectedly, I went down a rabbit hole with no expectations of ever returning. The joy of living was gone. So, being a painter, printmaker and photographer I decided to called upon these creative energies to help pull me out from this bottomless pit.
As my intellectual mind was (and still is) numb, it was important to do something that was simple, requiring minimal technological involvement. So became this ongoing body of cyanotypes. These minimal images stem from a purely intuitive place involving the therapeutic activity of mark-making. The cyanotype process permits me to draw and scrape with ink and other medium on acetate to create a contact negative. This is a very spontaneous, process oriented event.
