Rebecca Clark
Storrs, CT

Flight

Cyanotype with Hand Painted Emulsion 

Image size: 19 x 13 inches

$900 framed

To Purchase Contact 23 Sandy Gallery

www.clarkandlong.com

Artist Statement

I create these images digitally and use the cyanotype process to print them. I use cyanotype because it is an antique photographic process with its roots in science, first used by Anna Atkins in 1843 to print her botanical studies. Digital technology enables me to manipulate and alter the images I appropriate from antique texts and integrate them with original photographs. The resulting images represent a surrealistic and playful world of vintage scientific illustrations inhabited by children.

I especially like the marriage of the contemporary and antique in these pieces. The subjects of the collages, like the technique, are created by the convergence of seemingly unrelated elements. The juxtapositions I make are based upon the shape, form, and function or meaning of the elements. The pictures are about creation, metamorphosis, and cycles of life and like the myths that inspire them, they are often fantastic, surreal, and whimsical.

Artist Biography

Rebecca Clark has been working with antique and alternative processes and alternative cameras for over 10 years. She received her MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. She works as Professor of Art at the Community College of Rhode Island and lives with her husband and two sons in Connecticut.

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